Philip Seymour Hoffman

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Leap of Faith (1993): Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich…; Steve Martin plays a charismatic but crooked evangelist whose mock–miracles lead to a personal revelation. Lightweight and sentimental, but the…
Scent of a Woman (1993): Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Gabrielle Anwar…; Al Pacino finally method–acts his way to Oscar glory as a blind war veteran who, with the reluctant young chaperone, ventures to New York to…
Getaway, The (1993): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen…; A glossy yet respectable remake of the 1972 Peckinpah thriller with real–marrieds Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in the shoes of Steve McQueen…
Money for Nothing (1993): Dir. Ramon Menendez
Feat. John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen…; Fact–based account of an unemployed Philadelphia dockworker who scooped up US$1.2 million that fell out the back of an armoured car and decided…
Nobody's Fool (1994): Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy…; An unassuming American ballad that falls between arthouse independent and Hollywood sentiment. Paul Newman ages gracefully as a stubborn old salt…
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994): Dir. Luis Mandoki
Feat. Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Ellen Burstyn…; Idyllic couple Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan test their marriage vows to the hilt when she falls victim to alcoholism. Sincere if overlong examination of…
Twister (1996): Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Big kids and little kids will be enthralled by the special effects on offer here, though let it be said the script suffers under its obligation to…
Hard Eight (Sydney) (1996): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow…; Cucumber–cool first feature set in the thick of Reno's casino culture, boasts four superb character–based performances and extended…
Boogie Nights (1997): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds…; LA's San Fernando Valley, the late '70s. Mark Wahlberg is Eddie Adams, an anatomically gifted innocent who finds his niche in the cradle of a…
Big Lebowski, The (1998): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore…; Rolling another warped vision down the gutter, the inscrutable minds of the Coen Brothers (FARGO, RAISING ARIZONA) endow this bowling comedy with…
Happiness (1998): Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Lara Flynn Boyle, Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Controversial is the byword for this disturbing trawl through the sad–case lives of various American suburbanites and their families (Lara…
Next Stop, Wonderland (1998): Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman; Hope Davis (DAYTRIPPERS) utterly captivates as a jilted blonde indisposed to the dating scene, who finds little sign of Mr. Right in the long queue…
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999): Dir. Anthony Minghella
Feat. Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow…; Dashing, murderous fun from the makers of THE ENGLISH PATIENT, fashioning another esteemable literary piece, derived here from Patricia Highsmith's…
Magnolia (2000): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Robards Jr., William H. Macy…; A sprawling, stylistically–impressive but moribund domestic melodrama about Californian amorality and redemption (of sorts), with interleaved…
Flawless (2000): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman; After suffering a stroke that leaves him part–paralyzed, an arch–conservative, retired security guard (Robert De Niro) agrees to let a…
Almost Famous (2000): Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Kate Hudson…; The best music drama yet committed to film (SPINAL TAP was a comedy), this is a vibrant and bracingly assured portrait of rock music fanaticism in…
State and Main (2000): Dir. David Mamet
Feat. William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker…; When a harried film–crew descends upon the leafy streets of Waterford, Vermont to film a period drama, the worlds of apple–pie America…
Party's Over, The (Last Party 2000) (2001): Dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore; A pre–9/11 political doco that still resonates loudly in the George W. Bush era, actor and “concerned citizen” Phillip Seymour Hoffman…
Red Dragon (2002): Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes…; Betraying the odds after the lackluster “Hannibal”, this accomplished ‘prequel’ based on Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name more than…
25th Hour (2002): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper…; Slowburning drama that revolves around the personal tensions of drug–dealer Edward Norton, whose 8–year prison term begins the next…
Love Liza (2002): Dir. Todd Louiso
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates; Freshly widowed after his wife’s suicide, Phillip Seymour Hoffman staggers through and downward in an endearingly wacky yet affecting portrait of…
Punch-Drunk Love (2002): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
Cold Mountain (2003): Dir. Anthony Minghella
Feat. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger…; Prestige historical epic set in the closing days of the American Civil War, with a wounded confederate soldier (Law) deserting the ranks to rejoin…
Owning Mahowny (2003): Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt…; Phillip Seymour Hoffman stars in this fact–based story of a Toronto bank manager who became legendary for gambling away millions of his…
Along Came Polly (2004): Dir. John Hamburg
Feat. Ben Stiller, Jennifer Anniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; A control–freak meets chaos–personified in a NYC comedy that, while utterly familiar, cannot fail due to its stars and overall…
Empire Falls (TV Mini-series) (2005): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Conventional and well–handled drama series set in the once–booming factory town of Empire Falls, Maine, and mostly getting down in among…
Capote (2005): Dir. Bennett Miller
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.…; Polished and sophisticated dramatisation of how writer Truman Capote came to research and create his seminal 'true–crime' masterpiece IN COLD…
Strangers with Candy (2005): Dir. Paul Dinello
Feat. Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Matthew Broderick…; Cinematic reprise of a cult 'Comedy Central' TV series stars a truly absurd Amy Sedaris as an ex–con–junkie–whore who after being…
Mission: Impossible 3 (2006): Dir. J.J. Abrams
Feat. Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Keri Russell…; Propulsive and hyper–violent third outing for Tom Cruise as US superagent Ethan Hunt, here on a globe–jetting mission to foil a vile…
Charlie Wilson's War (2007): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Tom Hanks spearheads this crisp, ever–timely political sideswipe, about a real–life Texas congressman who, together with the financial…

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Filmography (All Films)