Infamous is a 2006 American drama film, based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton, Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. It covers the period from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, during which Truman Capote researched and wrote his bestseller In Cold Blood, a subject covered a year earlier in the film Capote. Capote is played by Toby Jones. The same role in the previous film version earned an Academy Award for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. According to writer/director Douglas McGrath in his DVD commentary, many of the scenes... in Infamous, most notably a dramatic sexual encounter between Capote and inmate Perry Smith , occurred only in McGrath's imagination. Truman Capote , known in New York City society for his wit and fashion flair as much as he is recognized in literary circles as the celebrated writer of Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads a small article about the murder of a farming family in Holcomb, Kansas, in the back pages of the New York Times of November 16, 1959.
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| Release date: | October 13, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Douglas McGrath |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jocelyn Hayes, Christine Vachon, Anne Walker-McBay |
| Editor: | Camilla Toniolo |
| Music by: | Rachel Portman |
| Cinematography: | Bruno Delbonnel |
| Screenplay by: | Douglas McGrath |
| Estimated budget: | $13,000,000 |
| Genre: | Biography |