Genres:Biography | Drama Countries:USA Directors:Barry Levinson Actors:George Aloi | Quarles Antoine | David Wilson Barnes | Courtney Benjamin | Jeremy Bobb | Richard 'Rick' Bobier | Kevin Cannon | Peter Conboy | Richard Council | Adam Driver | John Farrer | Robert Feeley | Jay Ferraro | Marty Garcia | David Geister
Dr. Jack Kevorkian (1928 - ) in the 1990s, when he defies Michigan law assisting the suicide of terminally-ill persons. Support comes from his sister, a lab tech, the Hemlock Society president, and a lawyer. The child of survivors of the Armenian genocide interviews applicants: his sister video tapes them. He assembles a device allowing a person to initiate a three-chemical intravenous drip. The local D.A., the governor, and the Legislature respond. In court scenes, Kevorkian is sometimes antic. He's single-minded about giving dying individuals the right to determine how their lives will end. He wants the Supreme Court to rule. He picks a fight he can't win: is it hubris or heroism?
Genres:Biography | Drama Countries:USA Directors:Bennett Miller Actors:Philip Seymour Hoffman | Catherine Keener | Clifton Collins Jr. | Chris Cooper | Bruce Greenwood | Bob Balaban | Amy Ryan | Mark Pellegrino | Allie Mickelson | Marshall Bell | Araby Lockhart | Robert Huculak | R.D. Reid | Rob McLaughlin | Harry Nelken
In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story material, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith, a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction. Download:
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