Infamous (2006)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 145
Fresh: 105 | Rotten: 40
Though comparisons with last year's Capote may be inevitable, Infamous takes a different angle in its depiction of the author, and stands up well enough on its own.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 13
Though comparisons with last year's Capote may be inevitable, Infamous takes a different angle in its depiction of the author, and stands up well enough on its own.
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Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood. The story opens with Capote (Toby Jones) visiting the site of the 1959 Clutter family homicide, on a Kansas research trip, accompanied by his close friend and colleague,
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Cast
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Toby Jones
Truman Capote -
Sandra Bullock
Nelle Harper Lee -
Daniel Craig
Perry Smith -
Sigourney Weaver
Babe Paley -
Gwyneth Paltrow
Kitty Dean -
Isabella Rossellini
Marella Agnelli -
Peter Bogdanovich
Bennett Cerf -
Rey Arteaga
El Morocco Band -
Jeff Daniels
Alvin Dewey -
Justin Sherburn
El Morocco Band -
Andrew Halbreich
El Morocco Band -
Juliet Stevenson
Diana Vreeland -
Michael Panes
Gore Vidal -
Hope Davis
Slim Keith -
Glover Gill
El Morocco Band -
Frank Curcio
William Shawn -
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John Benjamin Hickey
Jack Dunphy -
Mitch Baker
Reporter -
Grant James
Reporter -
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Terru Bennett
DA's Secretary -
Richard Dillard
Man On Street -
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Marco Perella
Clifford Hope -
Sheila Bailey-Lucas
Waitress -
Bethlyn Gerard
Marie Dewey -
Libby Villari
Delores Hope -
Glover Jamison Bennett
Desk Clerk -
Joey Basham
Paul Dewey -
Marian Aleta Jones
Ellen Bechner -
Mark Rubin
El Morocco Band -
Terri Zee
Nancy Hickey -
Richard Jones
Andy Erhart -
Steve Schwelling
El Morocco Band -
Brian Shoop
Everett Ogburn -
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Lee Pace
Dick Hickock -
Brady Coleman
Charles McAtee -
Paul Mitchell Wright
Prisoner -
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Terri Pipkin
Prisoner -
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Ray Gestaut
Lee Andrews -
Joe Cordi
Piano Player -
Lee Ritchey
Bill Paley -
Brett Brock
Tex Smith -
Leticia Trejo
Flo Smith -
Brady Hender
Young Perry -
Zachary Burnett
Young Truman -
Brent McCoy
Herb Clutter -
Gail Cronauer
Bonnie Clutter -
Austin Chittim
Kenyon Clutter -
Morgan Farris
Nancy Clutter -
Dennis Letts
Judge Tate -
Gabriel Folse
Foreman -
Charles Mooneyhan
Prison Guard -
J.D. Young
Prison Guard -
Steve Flanagin
Chaplain -
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Michael Conway
Doctor -
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All Critics (145) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (115) | Rotten (41) | DVD (21)
Why did they go ahead anyway? Did they believe that an immense Capote audience was hungering for two films about him?
Top CriticAll that was painted grey in Capote becomes black-and-white here.
Two good films about one subject [are] much better than a lot of bad films about different things.
Jones gets everything -- the gestures, the generosity, the mean streak, the bending of the ear to recitals of woe, whether across a lunch table or a prison cell.
The film benefits from three splendid performances: Toby Jones as Capote, an aggressively gay elf exuding a tosspot charm; Sandra Bullock as Nelle Harper Lee, a novelist who uses spoken words with quiet precision, and Daniel Craig as Perry.
It's a stellar cast, but you can't help but lament the bad timing.
A more rounded and just plain entertaining film than "Capote," thanks to its all-star cast and a marvelous Toby Jones
Better than Capote
This worthy second biopic of Truman Capote starts not with a bloodbath, but a cocktail.
Toby Jones' uncanny portrayal of the short, effeminate writer with the funny voice, gives the film its credibility and compassion.
Only Sandra Bullock shines as Harper Lee.
Poor Toby Jones. In any other year, his work as Truman Capote would be in immediate awards contention.
With dyed hair and tattoos, Craig nails the incredible complexity of a man who juggles gentleness with violence. The relationship between Capote and Perry is overtly moving and there was a big lump in my throat as the final chapters played out.
Why not accept Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee? As it turns out, she's quietly terrific. Most of the supporting actors are.
Mature drama follows author's quest for fame.
Infamous doesn't feel like a remake. While it covers the same ground, the pitch is completely different. Where Capote was cool, distant and even antiseptic, Infamous is warmer and more emotionally fulfilling.
Una aproximación más bien superficial y declamatoria a Truman Capote y su investigación previa a A Sangre Fría. En comparación, la versión de 2005 sale mucho mejor parada.
About cold blooded media seduction, and an ironic reflection of how class differences in this country seal the opposing fates of individuals.
To recreate the gossipy Manhattan arena that Capote navigated with such ease and documented with such malice, you need dialogue that rings like scatter-shot and the film's script, written by its director Douglas McGrath, doesn't have it.
Revela-se não somente desonesto, como decepcionantemente repulsivo.
"About cold blooded media seduction, and an ironic reflection of how class differences in this country seal the opposing fates of individuals."
The triad of performances by Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock and Daniel Craig keep it on its feet, but after a certain point it's stumbling aimlessly.
For this film, it's the little pleasures---such as scenes of Capote writing and pages from legal pads stacked in rows---rather than the overall feeling and being engaged by it the entire time, which is a bit hard to do.
Audience Reviews for Infamous
Super Reviewer
If Infamous is overlooked and underrated it has only Philip Seymour Hoffman to blame. Very bad timing for a pretty good film.
Super Reviewer
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- Truman Capote: I'm a poor man's Capote.
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- Dick Hickock: We're not leaving baby. They've seen us plain. Get down in the basement so we can take care of that.
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- Perry Smith: I sang and nobody listened, I painted and nobody cared to look, I killed 4 people and what happens? A work of art.
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