The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of American writers Truman Capote (1924-1984) and Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) through a collage of archival material, including talk show appearances and clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptations: "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Glass Menagerie", "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" and "In Cold Blood". Featuring voiceover work by actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto, the film celebrates both men’s often tumultuous friendship and honors how their identity as gay Southerners informed their timeless artistic achievements and relationships.
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2020
General Audiences
86 min.
Documentary
USA
USA, friendship, art, biopic, cinema, documentary, history, LGBTQIA+, memory, female directors, social pressure
Colorido, P&B
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Shane Sigler
Bernadine Colish
Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto
Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Mark Lee, Jonathan Gray, John Northrup
Fischio Films Production, Peaceable Assembly, Gigantic Studios
Madì
Dogwoof
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