In Cold Blood

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At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. so compelling was our grim fascination with the crime that the nation devoured Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel about it. all of this detail and chilling insight is recreated in this landmark film. While in prison, Dick Hickock (Anthony Edwards), 20, hears a cellmate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith (Eric Roberts), also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holocomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all - the rancher, the wife, and their teenage son and daughter. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey (Sam Neill) of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...

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