Michael HoffmanFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

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The Last Station

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff

Synopsis: The final year of Russian Socialist writer Leo Tolstoy comes to the screen with Christopher Plummer in the lead role and Helen Mirren portraying his wife, Sofia. Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff co-star in the Warner Bros. production, directed by Michael Hoffman from the novel by Read More

1/1/09
Out of the Blue: A Film About Life and Football at Boise State

Crew: Director

2007
The Great New Wonderful

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olympia Dukakis, Judy Greer, Naseeruddin Shah

Synopsis: A collection of everyday New Yorkers struggle to carry on with their increasingly stressful lives a year after the city was forever changed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Brooklyn-native Danny Leiner's ensemble-cast slice of life. Dr. Trabulous (Tony Shalhoub) is a gifted psychologist with a Read More

6/23/06
12 and Holding

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Conor Donovan, Zoë Weizenbaum, Jesse Camacho, Linus Roache, Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis: A trio of troubled suburbanites attempts to come to grips with the personal issues that surface following the tragic death of one of their own in this introspective adolescent drama from L.I.E. screenwriter/director (Michael Cuesta). In the months following the death of Jacob's (Conor Donovan) Read More

5/19/06
Game 6

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Keaton, Robert Downey, Jr., Ari Graynor, Bebe Neuwirth, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: A writer runs an obstacle course of neuroses as he prepares to debut an important new work in this comedy drama. Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton) is a successful playwright who, after a series of hit comedies, is about to debut a deeply personal drama, and is more than a little nervous about how it Read More

3/10/06
The Emperor's Club

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano, Rishi Mehta

Synopsis: A dedicated teacher learns some important lessons about himself years after he retired from the classroom in this drama. William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is an instructor at St. Benedict's School for Boys, an exclusive private academy on the East Coast where Hundert drills his charges on the moral Read More

11/22/02
MDs [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: William Fichtner, John Hannah, Jacqueline McKenzie, Leslie Stefanson, Aunjanue Ellis, Jane Lynch

Synopsis: The ad copy for the ABC medical drama MDs promised "doctors who'll bend any rule and take on the system." The series looked and sounded a lot like M*A*S*H, the difference being that it took place in peacetime, and in contemporary San Francisco. William Fichter and John Hannah essayed the Hawkeye Read More

2002
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Christian Bale, Dominic West, David Strathairn, Sophie Marceau

Synopsis: With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work is becoming a small flood, and director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this Read More

5/14/99
One Fine Day

Crew: Director

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (George Clooney Read More

1996
Restoration

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: This lavish historical drama based on the acclaimed novel by Rose Tremain won Oscars for Costume Design and Art Direction. Robert Downey, Jr. stars as Robert Merivel, a gifted medical student of the 17th century who ignores his studies in favor of pursuing debauched fun -- much to the Read More

1994
Soapdish

Crew: Director

Actors: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her Read More

5/31/91
Some Girls

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Florinda Bolkan, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Ashley Greenfield

Synopsis: Michael (Patrick Dempsey) is a college student invited to spend Christmas vacation in Quebec City with his sweetheart Gabby (Jennifer Connelly) and her family. The wide-eyed Michael sees the city as a fairytale land with the splendid architecture gently dusted by the falling snow. When Michael Read More

9/9/88
Promised Land

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, Tracy Pollan, Googy Gress

Synopsis: Three friends face the disappointments of adulthood in this drama. Growing up in Ashville, Utah, a small town where traditional ideals still cling stubbornly to the hearts and minds of youth, Davey Hancock (Jason Gedrick) is the star of the high school's championship basketball team. Pretty Read More

1/22/88
Restless Natives

Crew: Director

Actors: Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally, Ned Beatty, Robert Urquhart

Synopsis: In this Scottish comedy, two young fellows disguise themselves as a clown and a wolf-man and begin robbing tourist buses. Somehow the two end up considered national heroes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

5/2/86
Privileged

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs

Synopsis: This British drama is thought to be the first student feature film made at Oxford University. It is also notable for marking the film debut of actors Hugh Grant, Imogen Stubbs, and James Wilby. The story is focused on a group of undergraduates, one of whom considers himself a fine actor. During a Read More

1982