Philip Seymour Hoffman

Considered one of the best actors working today, Philip Seymour Hoffman has played a diverse set of characters, including the effete author Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar. Mo Rocca talks with the actor, now on Broadway and nominated for a Tony for Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."

Ambition seduces and power corrupts in a nerve-wracking thriller from Academy Award nominated director George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck). Idealistic campaign worker Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) has sworn to give all for Governor Mike Morris (Clooney), a wild card presidential candidate whose groundbreaking ideas could change the political landscape. However, a brutal Ohio primary threatens to test Morris's integrity. Stephen gets trapped in the down-and-dirty battle, discovering himself caught up in a scandal where the only path to survival is to play both sides. The all-star cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood.

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, Dirk Diggler. Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality. Featuring an amazing, award-winning cast, including Mark Wahlberg ( The Departed, We Own the Night ), Burt Reynolds ( Deliverance ), John C. Reilly ( Magnolia ), Julianne Moore ( Children of Men ), Philip Seymour Hoffman ( State & Main ), Don Cheadle ( Talk to Me ), William H. Macy ( Bobby ), and many more.

Academy-Award -winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (CAPOTE) and Academy-Award -nominee Amy Ryan (GONE BABY GONE) star in this humorous tale of love, betrayal, and friendship that The New York Post calls Dryly Hilarious . The story centers around Jack, a limo driver with vague dreams of landing a job with the MTA and an obsession with reggae that has prompted him to begin a half-hearted attempt at growing dreadlocks. He spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend and fellow driver Clyde (John Ortiz of AMERICAN GANGSTER) and Clyde's wife Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega of Broadway's RENT). When Clyde and Lucy introduce him to Connie, however, things change. Being with Connie inspires Jack to learn to cook, pursue a new career, and take swimming lessons so he can give her the romantic boat ride of which she dreams. But as Jack and Connie cautiously circle commitment, Clyde and Lucy's marriage begins to disintegrate.

A character-driven drama seething with underworld decadence, Montana is set in the final days of an unraveling crime organization. The Boss (Robbie Coltrane) is losing control over his underlings, while Claire (Kyra Sedgwick), his best lieutenant and most loyal operative, is determined to put him back in the driver's seat. But Claire is left out in the cold when she and her partner, Nick (Stanley Tucci), are set up by Duncan (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the Boss's financial genius, for a murder they didn't commit. On the run and stuck with Kitty (Robin Tunney), the Boss's cocaine-sniffing mistress, Claire seeks refuge with one of the Boss's shady business associates (John Ritter). But when he turns out to be foe rather than friend, Claire finds herself heading for a final violent confrontation.

Academy Award -winners Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts star in this true story about a hard-drinking, womanizing Texas congressman who, with the help of an unorthodox CIA agent, single-handedly drove the funding of Afghan guerillas in the 1980's in order to beat back the Soviet invasion. A satirical yet affecting drama of unparalleled pedigree, Charlie Wilson's War features colorful supporting turns from Oscar -winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar -nominee Amy Adams, a sharp script penned by Emmy -winner Aaron Sorkin, and insightful direction from legendary filmmaker Mike Nichols. What results from this compilation of mega-talents is an amazingly prescient examination of Western involvement in the Middle East as well as an engrossing tale of a true political renegade, a man that emerges as one of film's most original and larger-than-life characters.

Trailer for The Master. Set in America in the years following World War II, a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization and taps a young drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

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Trailer for the short film Happiness. What if happiness was for sale?

Synopsis: Desperate to field a winning team, baseball's Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane hires a statistical expert to help him remodel his squad - and potentially change baseball forever. USA - 2011 - PG13