Infamous

Name: Infamous
Genre: Biography, Drama, Crime
Released: October 13, 2006
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Toby Jones

2006

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Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: October 13, 2006 | R

Starring: Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Toby Jones

Summary: 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)

Director: Douglas McGrath

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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trishc

Mar 2, 2008

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 -- 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!!… Expand