Infamous (film)

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Infamous

Directed by	Douglas McGrath
Produced by	Jocelyn Hayes
Written by	Douglas McGrath George Plimpton (book)
Starring	Toby Jones See also cast list
Distributed by	Warner Independent Pictures
Release date(s)	October 13, 2006
Language	English
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Infamous is a biographical film drama about Truman Capote which premiered August 31, 2006, at the Venice Film Festival. Warner Independent Pictures released the film on October 13, 2006, to mostly favorable reviews.

Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, Infamous is based on the 1997 book Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton.

Infamous arrived almost exactly one year after the initial showings of Bennett Miller's Capote, a film which covers much of the same ground yet also depicts Capote in New York before he began work on In Cold Blood (1966). David Thomson, reviewing in The Independent, wrote about the film's alternative approach:

What does it have that's different? Well, first of all, it is written and directed by Douglas McGrath. He wrote Bullets Over Broadway with Woody Allen; and he wrote and directed Emma and Nicholas Nickleby. His film has a gallery of Truman Capote's Manhattan friends, people who adored him without ever quite trusting him: I'm thinking of Babe Paley (Sigourney Weaver), the clothes horse wife of Bill Paley, who controlled CBS; Diana Vreeland (Juliet Stevenson), the fashion magazine editor; Slim Keith (Hope Davis), the woman who was married to Howard Hawks and Leland Hayward; Bennett Cerf (Peter Bogdanovich), the publisher. These cameos give a tone-perfect sense of Capote's life before In Cold Blood. He is placed as the phenomenon of culture, celebrity and outrage that he was.

And here's another thing that Infamous has. In the opening scene of the film, Truman and Babe Paley are at the El Morocco night club in 1959, listening to a singer, Kitty Dean (Gwyneth Paltrow). She leaps into her number ("What Is This Thing Called Love") and then falters. She breaks down, slowly recovers, and finishes the song. It is the best thing I have ever seen Paltrow do - and it is for us to judge how far the incident is a model for Infamous. Pianist Rob Schwimmer (of Simon and Garfunkel fame) plays on this track, although is not onscreen.

The film previously was titled Have You Heard?, and it also had the USA working title Every Word Is True.

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[edit] Cast

Sandra Bullock and Toby Jones as Harper Lee and Truman Capote in Infamous (2006)

Actor	Role
Toby Jones	Truman Capote
Sandra Bullock	Harper Lee
Daniel Craig	Perry Smith
Lee Pace	Dick Hickock
Peter Bogdanovich	Bennett Cerf
Jeff Daniels	Alvin Dewey
Hope Davis	Slim Keith
Gwyneth Paltrow	Kitty Dean
Isabella Rossellini	Marella Agnelli
Juliet Stevenson	Diana Vreeland
Sigourney Weaver	Babe Paley
Lee Ritchey	William Paley
Frank G. Curcio	William Shawn
Bethlyn Gerard	Marie Dewey
Morgan Farris	Nancy Clutter
Austin Chittim	Kenyon Clutter
Brent McCoy	Herb Clutter
Zachary Burnett	Young Truman Capote
Juli Erickson	Aunt Sook
John Benjamin Hickey	Jack Dunphy
Michael Panes	Gore Vidal