At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate'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, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
as Agent Alvin Dewey
as Dick Hickock
as Perry Smith
as Roy Church
as Nancy Clutter
as Herbert Clutter
as Hotel Keeper
as Kathy Ewalt
as Sadie Truitt
as Bobby Rupp
as Bonnie Clutter
as Agent Harold Nye
as Eunice Hickock
as Marie Dewey
as Minister
as Clarence Ewalt
as Insurance Salesman
as Little Perry
as Little Perry
as Dorie
as Nun
as Eveanna Clutter
as Beverly Clutter
as Mrs. Ketchum
as Jolene Ketchum
as Flo Smith
as Flo's John
as Ann
as Tommy
as James
as Sheriff
as Undersheriff
as Tailor
as Inez
as Jeb
as Bill
as Kenyon's Friend
as Waitress
as N.Y. Newsman
as Journalist
as Reporter
as Announcer
as Warden
as Chaplain
as Mark Logan
as Detective Pike
as Hangman
