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Michael Hoffman is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Executive Producer and Sound Mixer American born on 30 november 1956 at Hawaii (USA)

Michael Hoffman

Michael Hoffman
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 november 1956 (68 years) at Hawaii (USA)

Michael Lynn Hoffman (born November 30, 1956) is an American film director.

Best films

The Last Station (2009)
(Director)
Restoration (1995)
(Director)

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Filmography of Michael Hoffman (16 films)

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The Best of Me, 1h58
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, Liana Liberato, Luke Bracey, Gerald McRaney, Clarke Peters
Rating67% 3.362493.362493.362493.362493.36249
Dawson Cole (James Marsden) works on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. One day, an explosion on the job nearly kills him, throwing him into the water, but miraculously, he survives. Months later after recovering, Dawson learns that his close friend and surrogate father, Tuck Hostetler (Gerald McRaney), has died and returns home for the first time in almost twenty years to carry out Tuck's final wishes. When he arrives at his house, Dawson is surprised to find that Tuck also arranged for Dawson's high school girlfriend, Amanda Collier (Michelle Monaghan), to join him.
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Gambit
Gambit (2012)
, 1h29
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Escroquerie
Actors Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Tom Courtenay, Cloris Leachman
Rating56% 2.847312.847312.847312.847312.84731
British art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss Lord Shabandar (Alan Rickman) by conning him into buying a fake Monet ("Haystacks at Dusk"), a painting that has been missing since 1945, after being plundered by the Nazis. He teams up with a master art forger, the Major, and travels to Alpine, Texas to find rodeo queen, PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz) whom he plans to recruit in his scheme. Harry envisions the plan in his head, and goes to a bar to talk to PJ.
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The Last Station, 1h52
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff, Kerry Condon
Rating68% 3.4464253.4464253.4464253.4464253.446425
In 1910, the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, his disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov, manoeuvre against his wife, Sofya, for control over Tolstoy's works after his death. The main setting is the Tolstoy country estate of Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy and Sofya have had a long, passionate marriage, but his spiritual ideals and asceticism (he is opposed, for example, to private property) are at odds with her more aristocratic and conventionally religious views.
Game 6
Game 6 (2005)
, 1h27
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Michael Keaton, Griffin Dunne, Shalom Harlow, Robert Downey Jr., Ari Graynor, Bebe Neuwirth
Rating56% 2.844852.844852.844852.844852.84485
Nicky Rogan has written several plays and has achieved success. It is now opening night of his latest effort, and all around him assure him that this one will be the best yet. But as opening hour approaches, Rogan falls prey to doubts and fears, egged on by another playwright whose last work was trashed by the local newspaper's new drama critic, Steven Schwimmer. He eventually lets those fears drive him to adopt a resolve to kill the critic (who he assumes will also trash his play), and he procures a handgun with which to perform the deed.
The Emperor's Club, 1h49
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Embeth Davidtz, Rob Morrow, Purva Bedi, Edward Herrmann
Rating69% 3.451763.451763.451763.451763.45176
In 2001, William Hundert, a retired Classics teacher, is flown out to a luxurious resort in the Hamptons owned by one of his former students in order to be the guest of honor in an impromptu reunion. As he gets settled in he reflects on the turn of events in a flashback of his time working at Saint Benedict's Academy, a prestigious preparatory school.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1h56
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Les fées, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel
Rating63% 3.1998853.1998853.1998853.1998853.199885
In Monte Athena, in the Kingdom of Italy, young lovers Lysander (Dominic West) and Hermia (Anna Friel) are forbidden to marry by her father Egeus (Bernard Hill), who has promised Hermia to Demetrius (Christian Bale). Lysander and Hermia makes plans to flee to the forest to escape the arrangement. Demetrius follows them, having been made aware of the plan by Helena (Calista Flockhart), a young woman who is desperately in love with him. Once in the forest, they wander into the fairy world, ruled by Oberon (Rupert Everett) and Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer), King and Queen of the fairies.
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One Fine Day, 1h48
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Mae Whitman, Charles Durning, Jon Robin Baitz
Rating64% 3.249533.249533.249533.249533.24953
Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an architect and divorced single mother to son, Sammy (Alex D. Linz). Her day gets off to a bad start when she is late to drop him off at school, due to the forgetfulness of fellow single parent Jack Taylor (George Clooney), a New York Daily News reporter whose daughter, Maggie (Mae Whitman), is thrust into his care that morning by his ex-wife.
Restoration, 1h57
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, Ian McKellen, Hugh Grant, David Thewlis, Polly Walker
Rating65% 3.296353.296353.296353.296353.29635
A young doctor, Robert Merivel (Robert Downey, Jr.), enters the service of King Charles II of England (Sam Neill) after having saved the King's favorite spaniel. Merivel finds himself enjoying a life of pleasure and popularity at court, until the King informs him that he has arranged for Merivel to wed Celia (Polly Walker), the King's favorite mistress. The purpose of the arranged marriage is to fool another of the King's mistresses. Merivel is given an estate named Bidnold in Suffolk, and Celia is installed in a house in Kew where the king can visit her secretly.
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Soapdish
Soapdish (1991)
, 1h33
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue, Teri Hatcher
Rating65% 3.297083.297083.297083.297083.29708
Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), the longtime star of the daytime drama The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty); Montana connives to supplant Celeste as the show's star by promising sexual favors to its producer, David Seton Barnes (Robert Downey, Jr.). To make the audience hate Celeste's character, Montana and David come up with a last-minute plot change in which she will accidentally kill a young, destitute deaf-mute, played by the newly-cast Lori Craven (Elisabeth Shue).
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Promised Land, 1h42
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jason Gedrick, Tracy Pollan, Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, Deborah Richter, Herta Ware
Rating56% 2.8460852.8460852.8460852.8460852.846085
Ce drame réaliste suit deux étudiants qui viennent d'obtenir leur licence, à Ashville dans l'Utah, une petite ville où les traditions restent très ancrées : Davey Hancock (Jason Gedrick), un joueur de basket-ball et Danny Rivers (Kiefer Sutherland).
Some Girls
Some Girls (1988)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Andre Gregory, Sheila Kelley, Lila Kedrova, Florinda Bolkan
Rating56% 2.849832.849832.849832.849832.84983
Michael, a college student, (Patrick Dempsey) goes to Quebec City, Canada for Christmas at the request of his college girlfriend Gabriella (Jennifer Connelly), after months of her stonewalling him after she left college in mid-semester.

Scriptwriter

The Best of Me, 1h58
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, Liana Liberato, Luke Bracey, Gerald McRaney, Clarke Peters
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.362493.362493.362493.362493.36249
Dawson Cole (James Marsden) works on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. One day, an explosion on the job nearly kills him, throwing him into the water, but miraculously, he survives. Months later after recovering, Dawson learns that his close friend and surrogate father, Tuck Hostetler (Gerald McRaney), has died and returns home for the first time in almost twenty years to carry out Tuck's final wishes. When he arrives at his house, Dawson is surprised to find that Tuck also arranged for Dawson's high school girlfriend, Amanda Collier (Michelle Monaghan), to join him.
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