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In Cold Blood

IMDB Rating: 8.20
6242 votes

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 Storyline
Truman Capote wrote the 'non-fiction novel' from which the film is drawn, using the novelist's craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters' capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society's response might have been.
Actors
Richard 'Dick' HickockScott Wilson
Perry SmithRobert Blake
Alvin DeweyJohn Forsythe
Also posted in 1967, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Infamous

IMDB Rating: 7.30
3020 votes

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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?
Actors
Truman CapoteToby Jones
Babe PaleySigourney Weaver
Kitty DeanGwyneth Paltrow
Also posted in 2006, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Oliver Twist

IMDB Rating: 7.00
4777 votes

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In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow´s fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save Oliver.
Actors
Oliver TwistBarney Clark
Mr. BumbleJeremy Swift
Mr. LimbkinsIan McNeice
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)