INFAMOUS (2006) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Douglas McGrath
Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig,
Sigourney Weaver, Peter Bogdanovich, Hope Davis,
Jeff Daniels, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini
The second of two movies, released within a year of each other, covering the time Truman Capote spent researching and writing "In Cold Blood". In "Capote" (2005), Philip Seymour Hoffman played Capote. In this film, it's Toby Jones. Both portray Capote as a devious, self-serving prick, and Hoffman got the Oscar at least partly by getting there first. Sandra Bullock plays Harper Lee, the part Catherine Keener played in the Hoffman version, but the revelation here is Daniel Craig as Perry Smith, a lost soul on a one-way ticket to hell, and the key figure in Capote's nonfiction novel. It's a compelling performance, and you don't see much of James Bond in it anywhere. You barely even see Daniel Craig.
