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Capote2005 • 114 min • Budget $7M • Box office $49MCrime, DramaThis film chronicles writer Truman Capote's ambitious project for The New Yorker: a groundbreaking, true-crime book titled "In Cold Blood."7.07.317+
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Wild Strawberries1957 • 91 minDramaThis Swedish film centers on Isak Borg, a retired doctor traveling from Stockholm to Lund for an honorary degree from his old university. He's joined by Marianne, his son's pregnant and unhappy…8.18.1
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