Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director, Actor
- 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…