Infamous DVD

 

 

When writer and Manhattan society darling, Truman Capote, reads of the Clutter family murders in Kansas, he is immediately intrigued. He convinces The New Yorker magazine to assign him to write a story. Accompanying him is his friend, Harper Lee, whose book 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is about to be published. Capote eventually wins over Alvin Dewey, the local officer leading the hunt for the killers. The murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are captured, tried and sentenced to die. Capote visits them in jail, now keen to turn the article into a non-fiction novel, but his association with Perry Smith has unexpected emotional consequences.