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Capote is a 2005 American biographical drama film that tells a story of Truman Capote who writes a new book that is idealized from a 300-word article in the November 16, 1959 issue of The New York Times.

Directed by Bennett Miller; Produced by Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven; Screenplay by Dan Futterman; Based on the 1983 book "Capote" by Gerald Clarke.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones

Truman Capote

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  • On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life, and and the life of those two men - the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night.
  • It's the hardest when someone has a notion about you and it's impossible to convince them otherwise.

Dialogue

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Truman Capote: I had lunch with Jimmy Baldwin the other day.
Party Date: How is he?
Truman Capote: He's lovely, he's a lovely man. And he told me the plot of his new book. And he said, "I just wanted to make sure it's not one of those problem novels," you know. And I said , "Jimmy. Your book is about a Negro homosexual who's in love with a Jew. Wouldn't you call that a problem?" [everyone laughs]
Truman Capote: I was writing the script as they were filming - all that time in Italy - and I'd work like mad all day long and then dash down to the bar around midnight to hand in the next day's scenes. And Humphrey had just about moved into the hotel bar.
Marie Dewey: [to Alvin] Humphrey Bogart.
Truman Capote: Where he and John...
Marie Dewey: [to Alvin] John Huston.
Truman Capote: Had - eh - they drank every night. And I mean drank, you know, like famished water buffaloes.

Cast

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