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In Cold Blood

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Rated: Unrated; Genre: Crime; With: Anthony Edwards, Sam Neill and Eric Roberts

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By Denise Lanctot

The 1967 black-and-white original remains definitive, but this first-rate remake of In Cold Blood, which aired on CBS last fall, does almost equal justice to Truman Capote's landmark true-crime saga about a pair of cretinous ex-cons who butchered a prominent Kansas farm family in 1959. Benedict Fitzgerald's three-hour teleplay unfolds with mounting intensity, and Jonathan Kaplan's direction effortlessly propels us toward the inevitable horror. The psychological canvas is pure Edward Hopper — a stark rendering of the lost and the damned. Bravo, Anthony Edwards; Eric Roberts' manic psycho makes Norman Bates seem like Mr. Rogers. A-

Posted Jul 11, 1997

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