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Infamous
EMAILPRINTWarner Independent Pictures

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Douglas McGrath
George Plimpton (book Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career)
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 13, 2006
DVD: February 13, 2007
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language, violence and some sexuality
Starring Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Sigourney Weaver, Juliet Stevenson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Bogdanovich, and Jeff Daniels
Infamous follows the dangerous quest for artistic greatness chosen by Truman Capote (Jones) as he travels to Kansas to investigate the brutal murder of the Clutter family, accompanied by lifelong friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Nelle Harper Lee (Bullock). (Warner Independent Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Infamous gives you the unique opportunity to see how two sets of filmmakers can take exactly the same story, make extremely tough though different choices in emphasis and tone and achieve brilliant movies.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Less a parable of literary ethics than a showcase of literary personality, and it is in the end more touching than troubling.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
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. He even nails the voice, like that of a chorister caught running a racket with the incense.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Dizzy with celebrity, New York society and gay life (if all that isn't the same thing), Infamous is more fun. But "Capote" is a better movie.
Read Full Review >Empire Will Lawrence
While less beguiling than "Capote," Infamous remains a soulful and searching portrayal of the writer, carried with immense charm and vivacity by its leading man.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Though it's not as good as the brilliant "Capote," it's nevertheless a riveting, well-made picture.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Infamous is the better Capote film, yes, but also the less easily digestible one, the more eccentric one and -- yes -- the gayer one.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Infamous successfully captures a sense of the loneliness of a writer's life.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
I don't know if that makes Infamous a better movie, but it's certainly as good and a lot more fun. British actor Toby Jones is so physically right in the role, you'll think Capote is playing himself.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Watch Infamous on its own. It's a worthy film in its own right, with its own virtues.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Overall, McGrath's film has superior star power (including Gwyneth Paltrow in a one-scene role as a Peggy Lee-like chanteuse), is franker about the sexual nature of Capote's fascination with the murderous Smith and his sad, strangled dreams, and spends more time establishing Capote's glittering New York life before setting him adrift in the heartland.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The pleasure of Infamous is in its gallery of larger-than-life portrayals.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
"Capote" is serious, deep and unadorned in the manner of the 1967 movie adaptation of the writer's true-crime novel "In Cold Blood." And Infamous boasts the high-gloss frivolity of the 1961 film version of Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
"Capote" is the more intellectual of the two films; Infamous is the more emotional. They exist to complement, not eclipse, one another.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
It's a stellar cast, but you can't help but lament the bad timing.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
Ultimately, the problem with Infamous isn't that it revisits Capote's turf--it's that it does the same things well, and leaves the same unsatisfying holes.
Read Full Review >Variety David Rooney
Writer-director Douglas McGrath's boldest stroke is to impose a more overtly gay interpretation on a central relationship in which the attraction was generally supposed to be unspoken.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
It's just a lesser version, light in weight and absent the ache that permeated the movie for which Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Academy Award. It can't withstand the comparisons. It's good, especially during its first half, just not good enough.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Neither movie (Capote/Infamous) gives you the whole picture, but it's fun to see them both and rearrange the pieces in your head.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
McGrath says that he considers his film to be lighter in tone than TC 1, which is baffling. The reverse seems the case.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
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, a deluded monster who is nonetheless forthright and strong.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
A garish and fascinating little movie that comes bouncing in the wake of Bennett Miller's "Capote" like a yipping puppy trying to keep up with an elegant show dog.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The added value that writer-director Douglas McGrath has in mind is gossip -- and a goggly interest in gossip becomes the glittering gimmick of Infamous.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Compared to "Capote," this new film is altogether lighter.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The only difference between the two films is that this one chronicles Capote's New York environment in more detail (and with humorous interludes), and it's a tad lighter in tone and perhaps a bit less high-horse condemning of its subject's literary ethics.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
Understanding what McGrath is trying to pull off is not the same thing as McGrath pulling it off; as ambitious as it is, Infamous falters in execution too often to create a lasting impression.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Though stylistically all over the place, it's not without interest.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The film's most pleasing surprise is the beautifully nuanced portrait of Capote's confidante, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee, by Sandra Bullock. You heard me. Bullock gives the film what it otherwise lacks: the ring of truth.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Flashy, fun, shallow, easy-going and without a hope of brilliance.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Infamous, which mines almost the exact same ground as "Capote," comes up 300 days late and artistically close to bankruptcy.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
McGrath makes literal what the other movie only hinted at -- that Perry falls in love with Capote -- turning the relationship between author and subject into something far less complicated and more mundane.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Infamous has dramaturgical strengths, whether or not it gets the facts right. Jones's performance as Capote tends to be delivered in a monotone, yet thanks to Craig all of their scenes together are potently realized.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
It bears roughly the same resemblance to the Bennett Miller-Dan Futterman-Philip Seymour Hoffman masterpiece as the now-forgotten "Valmont" did to "Dangerous Liaisons."
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The problem is that the first half of Infamous is nowhere near as comic as McGrath intends. Instead the picture gives off a tone of arch stylization that plays as artificial, overwrought and off-putting.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 33 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
trish c gave it a10:
Hands down, "Infamous" is the superior movie. It is so entertaining in the beginning, paced just right -- back and forth from Kansas and New York in the middle, and explosive, devastatingly so at the end. The casting is almost perfect, except for the banal Hope Davis, and Toby Jones is -- well, Truman Capote!!
Tito O. gave it a0:
This was the worst movie I have ever seen. I can't believe that someone actually tried to out due the original "Capote". It was an awful rendition and an embarrassment to the film industry.
Jennifer H. gave it a10:
A masterpiece. About life, and love, and art, and how the latter two might make the first more bearable, or more miserable. Much better than the movie Capote, which was about one man. This is about all of us.
Linda L. gave it a10:
I watched both movies "Capote and Infamous" and without a doubt found Infamous to be the best. Toby Jones was truly A Truman Capote. The only question I have is, how do you know he actually had an affair with Perry Smith? Is that part really the truth?
Jorge A. gave it a10:
It shows Capote as he was and its at the same time emotional and intellectually insightful. An invitation to rereading the novel and an understanding homage to Capote.
Gil M. gave it a10:
One of the better Capote depictions. Toby Jones is fantastic!
Anny K. gave it a9:
I didn't see "Capote" and I dont go to the cinema often, but this film contained all of the elements I enjoy in a movie experience, whilst easily accessible it none the less contained enough material to engender reflection on the human condition intersperced with some very humourous moments. The actors Toby Jones , Sandra Bullock and especially Daniel Craig provided some wonderful performances.
