Dustin
2) Lenny
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Dustin Hoffman brings controversial comedian Lenny Bruce to life in this powerful portrait of an artist who turns comedy and America on its ear with his often offensive humor. But life in the on the comedy circuit begins to take its toll on Bruce. The drugs and arrests for his subject matter wear heavily on him but don't stop him from pushing the envelope right to his tragic and myth-making end.
4) Putty Hill
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield (*Sollers Point, I Used to Be Darker*). At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Mary is a hardworking nurse who dreams of only one thing: changing her life. She resents her husband for being an irresponsible, overgrown adolescent, incapable of holding down a job. Leeward is an atypical, idealistic musician who fancies himself a misunderstood artist and a New Age visionary. Enter Lilas, a 19 year old French artist and the daughter of a world famous painter, who is trying to make it in New York and get away from an overbearing...
Language
English
Description
A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
8) Sam & Kate
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Starring Academy Award®-winners Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek, Sam & Kate is a heartwarming, multi-generational family story bringing together four people who are given a second chance at love, and life.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artist residency to work on a new Spanish translation of *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*. Upon her arrival, she quickly realizes that her work isn't compensating for the loss of her friends and the lover she left behind. When she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards from Danièle, a former participant in the same residency, Camila second-guesses her...
10) Person to Person
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A record collector and his roommate, a teenager and her best friend, and a rookie reporter and her metal-head supervisor. A day in the life of an eclectic group of New Yorkers. Starring Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson and more.
11) Sphere
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A thousand feet below the ocean surface, fear can kill. Two-time Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman stars with Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson in the science fiction thriller SPHERE. When a team of scientists--psychologist Norman Goodman (Hoffman), biochemist Beth Halperin (Stone) and mathematician Harry Adams (Jackson)--descends into the murky ocean depths to explore an ancient spacecraft resting on the Pacific floor, they discover the ship's...
13) Sleepers
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Four ordinary boys. A harmless prank gone awry. Their childhood innocence forever shattered, they vow to avenge its loss in the haunting drama SLEEPERS. Sentenced to spend time at a reform school for their reckless behavior, four basically good boys from a bad neighborhood suffer a horrible fate while there. Forced to perform unspeakable acts by the very adults entrusted to watch over them, the young quartet barely survives the ordeal. A decade and...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An intimate, multi-year portrait of two chefs and their staffs in Washington, DC who struggle to open and maintain their first restaurants. The film begins with each restaurant under construction and follows them through their first year of business. Against all odds, one becomes the most famous new restaurant in America, winning Bon Appetit magazine’s Best New Restaurant award and a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic. The other...
15) Hal
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hal Ashby directed a remarkable string of acclaimed, widely admired classics throughout the 1970s (such as *Harold and Maude* and *Being There*), but is often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from his generation. Amy Scott’s exuberant portrait explores that curious oversight. Featuring interviews with film legends that worked with him and were inspired by him such as Adam McKay, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell, Dustin Hoffman, Hal Ashby,...
16) Wag the Dog
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman star in a tale of politics, power and Hollywood so outrageous it could be true! Two weeks before re-election, the President of the United States (Michael Belson) is accused of accosting a girl scout. Before the news reaches the media, his advisors call in a political consultant (De Nireo) specializing in image rescues. What to do? Hire a Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to create a war--distracting...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Description
Journey to the seemingly idyllic world of Native Hawaiians, where communities are surrounded by experimental test sites and pesticides sprayed upwind of their neighborhoods. The film details the ongoing struggle to advance bold new legislation governing the fate of their island home.