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	Philip Seymour Hoffman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York to Gordon S. Hoffman, a former Xerox executive, and Marilyn O'Connor, a family court judge; he has a sister, Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred.
		Hoffman has Irish heritage;[1] his father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic, but he was not raised heavily in either religion.
		Hoffman is rumored as being considered for the role of The Penguin in the upcoming sequel to Batman Begins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman (691 words)

	Eye Weekly - Love hurts - 01.23.03
		Hoffman was finally given the chance to carry a movie, playing the lead role of a pre-op transsexual and drag performer in Joel Schumacher's Flawless.
		There are two or three moments in the movie where Gordy's script gives you a glimpse of their relationship, and you understand that they loved each other.
		When Hoffman agreed to star, the siblings teamed up with Louiso, an actor, writer and aspiring director who's best known to audiences as one half of High Fidelity's pair of astringently nerdy and very funny record store clerks (the larger-than-life Jack Black played his partner and stole the spotlight).
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.23.03/film/loveliza.html (824 words)

	Louisville Scene \| Movies \| Movie Review \| 'Love Liza' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Wilson, a man who copes with his wife's suicide by huffing gas fumes, in a film written by his brother, Gordy.
		Hoffman the actor is good, but even brotherly love can't save this one.
		In the end, the film is Hoffman's show, and he rises to the challenge with his characteristic courage as an actor.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/reviews/2003/20030328loveliza.html (543 words)

	OnWisconsin Live Movies: Love Liza
		But semantics are the least of the problems faced by a protagonist, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, bewildered by his wife's suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage that is attached to their house.
		Hoffman has the blank expression and clumsy mannerisms of a junkie going to great lengths to prove that he isn't.
		Hoffman, a terrific character actor, shows what he can get good mileage out of his craft in a leading role.
	www.onwisconsin.com /movies/movie.asp?id=753 (513 words)

	GORDY HOFFMAN INTERVIEW
		Hoffman: I wrote the first draft in August 1996 in 18 days and thought I had come up with something interesting.
		Hoffman: We all looked at different versions; the first was in April 2001.
		Hoffman: The film was enjoying a really great ride there, and there was a lot of talk about how the crop at Sundance wasn't that strong.
	www.sick-boy.com /gordy.htm (843 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Love gone astray
		On his journey, Hoffman recoils in horror at a co-worker's romantic advances, becomes irresponsible, loses his job, starts sniffing gasoline, flies model airplanes, terrorizes friends, and heads into an abyss, all because he thinks something in the letter will blame him for the suicide.
		Gordy Hoffman's script, winner of the best screenplay award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, is filled with spaces for his brother to simply "be" on screen.
		Philip Seymour Hoffman can "be" on screen better than most actors because he is so expressive, so multi-layered, so extraordinarily real as a human presence on celluloid.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/L/Love_Liza/2003/01/24/pf-753523.html (447 words)

	loveliz
		Gordy was the recipient of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
		As fine a character actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman is, he's saddled with weak lines and an ill-conceived story line to pull off this somber tale that is not certain if it also wants to be amusing.
		Philip Seymour Hoffman is in nearly every scene, and it was wonderful to watch him change expressions and smartly turn himself into a lost soul (but even his fine portrayal became too much).
	www.sover.net /~ozus/loveliz.htm (658 words)

	Love Liza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written by Philip’s brother Gordy Hoffman, produced by Bret Granville and directed by Todd Louiso.
		Wilson Joel's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) wife Liza (Annie Morgan) has, for an unexplained reason, committed suicide.
		Wilson one night discovers a sealed letter from his wife, which he believes to be her suicide note.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Love_Liza (299 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Love Liza (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hoffman plays Wilson Joel, a tech-head whose wife has recently committed suicide, although it takes us a while to figure that out.
		The condition is familiar to students of some of Hoffman's other characters, and comes to full flower in "Happiness" (1998), where he plays a man who lives in solitary confinement with his desperate and antisocial sexual fantasies.
		There is a kind of attentive concern that Hoffman brings to his characters, as if he has been giving them private lessons, and now it is time for their first public recital.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030207/REVIEWS/302070303/1023 (897 words)

	Love Liza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Over the past decade, Philip Seymour Hoffman has appeared in a huge number of films in supporting roles, but Love Liza is his first time headlining a movie.
		Hoffman (Red Dragon, Punch-Drunk Love) is Wilson, a man coping with the recent suicide of his wife Liza.
		Hoffman's performance is good, but it is one sustained note of a gasoline-induced haze.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/love_liza.html (393 words)

	Family Affair
		Gordy did the drama-club thing first—he remembers giving Philip pointers for his audition for a high-school production of MASH (Philip played Radar O’Reilly)—but by the time Gordy* went off to the University of Kansas to study English and economics, Philip was already eclipsing him on the stage back home.
		Gordy took it upon himself to give his little brother another pointer: “I was like, ‘You better make sure you cover your ass and apply to other places!’ I was definitely threatened by the type of clarity that he had.
		Gordy, meanwhile, was working a series of random jobs after graduation, first in D.C., then in Chicago—various means to support himself as he began writing.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/movies/features/n_8084 (1620 words)

	Insider: Rochester Remixed
		Hoffman inhabited the role of a sympathetic bedside nurse, which was written especially for him.
		Hoffman is a ferocious mattress salesman who runs a crooked phone-sex service on the side.
		Hoffman elevates a mediocre comedy as Ben Stiller's sidekick and a former child actor who shoots a memorably sweaty game of hoops.
	www.rochesterinsider.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/INSIDER03/602030345 (1120 words)

	CNN.com - Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'Just another actor' - January 17, 2002
		But Hoffman is no stranger to movie audiences -- even if his character-actor looks prompt people to think, "Hey, isn't that...?" without coming up with his name.
		HOFFMAN: What I like about the story is that everyone deals with death differently.
		Hoffman portrays a man who loses his wife to suicide in "Love Liza," written by his brother.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/17/sun.hoffman (804 words)

	Love Liza - Movie Review
		In his latest role in Love Liza, Hoffman plays a troubled and tender widower, attempting to reorient his life in the face of his wife’s suicide and the letter she left behind.
		Gordy Hoffman’s script, awarded best screenplay at Sundance 2002, offers little more in terms of plot.
		Even Hoffman seems to go too far, too fast at some points, and Kathy Bates has too few scenes to be stealing as many of them as she does.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/loveliza (771 words)

	Philip Seymour Hoffman Gets Candid , Actor Talks About Getting Help For Substance Abuse - CBS News
		It took Hoffman nine months of his life to get the performance just right, and when the shooting was over, he was tapped out, and done being Truman Capote.
		Hoffman says he doesn't drink and went into rehab at a fairly early age.
		After all, Futterman, Miller and Hoffman are already big winners, each has his own Oscar nomination for "Capote." They all say it doesn’t matter if they win or not, but it was hard to tell if they are bluffing.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/16/60minutes/main1323924_page3.shtml (776 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - Love Liza
		Both Louiso and screenwriter Gordy Hoffman (brother of the film’s resilient star Philip Seymour Hoffman) devise an absorbing and wacky intimate story of frustration and anguish in the echoes of self-inflicted madness and its unpredictability.
		Hoffman and Bates are astounding as they give thoughtfully robust and challenging performances.
		Hoffman continues to demonstrate why he’s one of the most fascinating and sought-out adventurous actors working in films today.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2002/loveliza.htm (952 words)

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		Hoffman has brought unusual quality to a lot of mainstream and off-stream films in recent years.
		The debut direction job of actor Todd Louiso, and written by Hoffman's brother Gordy (who first thought of acting Wilson himself), the film shows how computer geek Wilson is nearly suicidal after his lovely and evidently loving wife kills herself.
		Hoffman notches in the nuances of pain, but his smart, edgy voice and waddling profile (emphasized here) accent the humor of Wilson's plight, and that saves his pathos from drippiness.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile?fid=22&id=251168 (499 words)

	Love Liza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Starring the ever more brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman, the film follows Wilson Joel, a young man processing his grief after the out-of-the-blue suicide of his wife.
		There's a fine shot of Bates reflected in a window that separates her from Hoffman, seen inside the glass; they see each other but are kept divided by the transparent barrier.
		Hoffman carries the film, onscreen almost the entire time.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/LoveLiza.htm (558 words)

	Love Liza (2002): Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Erika Alexander, Todd Louiso
		Since the film has been written by the protagonist's own brother and since Philip Seymour Hoffman is in virtually every frame, you could not be faulted for thinking this is a vanity production.
		Hoffman is shown almost throughout the hour and a half in his signature disheveled appearance, often with a two- or three-day growth of hair on his face and a who-cares attitude about his clothing-which is fine since he works with a bunch of young computer nerds as a web designer.
		Hoffman performs in the role of a person who despite his off-the-wall reaction is never less than believable, while Kathy Bates, as the mother of the dead woman who on the surface appears to comfort her bereaved son-in-law, is going through no small crisis herself.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/movie-10001351/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=812112 (583 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review LOVE LIZA movie by Todd Louiso with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Sarah Koskoff, Stephen ...
		It helps immeasurably that Hoffman's puffy, dim-looking countenance (he should close his mouth more often) looks like it belongs to a guy who's been huffing high-test from the get-go.
		It's an eccentric screenplay to be sure (written by Hoffman's older brother Gordy as it happens), but it's well crafted and allows its leading man to truly get inside his character.
		Gordy Hoffman's screenplay is laced with comic scenes and situations, especially whenever Denny is around with his remote-controlled boats and banter.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/loveliza.php (899 words)

	INDEPENDENT CRITICS - Review Page
		Phillip Seymour Hoffman is utterly outstanding as the grieving widow...even with all the "Why?" questions, I found myself completely engrossed in his character.
		Hoffman is one of my favorite actors, and this role is a tour-de-force for him.
		Additionally, the script is by Gordy Hoffman (Phillip Seymour Hoffman's older brother).
	www.independentcritics.com /reviews/loveliza.htm (471 words)

	LOVE LIZA - DVD
		Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dante and the slings and arrows of mendacity are his Virgil, chasing him through the inferno of his day to day.
		Directed by actor Todd Louiso and written by Hoffman's older brother Gordy, Love Liza is one of the stickiest films of the year, perfect in its pitch and execution save for the moment here and again where it slides into trickery and convention.
		An image of the bereaved mother grasping her dead daughter's last thoughts, perched on the edge of a tub at the end of a hall, though, is almost enough to forgive all sins.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/loveliza.htm (688 words)

	Love Liza - Newsday.com
		Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fearless actor who can earn your affection by not caring whether he does or not.
		When he plays a crank, a dweeb or any other manner of misfit, Hoffman leaves no clear arrows toward sentimentality or whatever the mainstream means when it talks about "redemption." Take me - or hate me - as I am, Hoffman's characters cry out from beneath their pasty, hypersensitive skin.
		In "Love Liza," Hoffman tosses yet another curveball in the dark as he plays a character with whom you sympathize at the very start, but from that point on, strains your threshold for compassion.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/movies/ny-lovelizamovie,0,7485437.story (518 words)

	MovieFreak.com - Love Liza DVD Review
		Anyway, Hoffman is the best thing about this film, but really the only thing, too.
		Gordy Hoffman’s script is very intuitive and some of the dialogue is quite witty and funny, but that is always on Wilson’s part since his responses are a little different than yours or mine would be.
		Aside from a commentary by Director Todd Louiso, Screenwriter Gordy Hoffman and Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, which is pretty conversational and on target, the only other semi-extras consist of a Weblink, trailers and filmographies.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/l/loveliza_a.htm (742 words)

	Amazon.com: Love Liza (2001) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gordy Hoffman's extraordinary screenplay couldn't have been in better hands.
		Phillip Seymour Hoffman's tragic, grief-stricken performance was one of the highlights of this film -- it's about time he was cast in a role that was tailor-made for him as this one was ("Love Liza" was written by his brother Gordy Hoffman).
		This film is an excellent portrayal of a man who is coping with the suicide of his wife and who adopts a hobby to cover up a huffing habit as if he were a rebellious teenager.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008WJEU?v=glance (1616 words)

	village voice > film > Ikiru; Love Liza by Michael Atkinson
		At first shiver, Shimura's slow-moving, cow-eyed performance has a muted Kabuki-ness, but you quickly become aware of how chronic pain controls the character's movements (reportedly, Shimura was recovering from surgery himself), and how affectation toward masculine quietude can, over years, seize up a man's natural engine.
		While dithering about whether to read his wife's final note, Hoffman's disoriented schlub falls in with a pleasantly obsessive model-plane fanatic (a surprising turn by Jack Kehler), shrugs off the sympathetic gestures of his unpredictable mother-in-law (Kathy Bates), and haunts gas stations.
		Lisa Rinzler's cinematography may be lovely, but Love Liza's tale itself (written by Hoffman's brother) virtually collapses into an inhalant flout, maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0301/atkinson.php (747 words)

	Grief Among the Lonely; Hoffman's Intense Star Turn Overtakes "Love Liza"
		Lumbering through every scene like a depressed polar bear amok in the suburbs, Hoffman is unrelenting in his capacity for eliciting the maximum amount of suffering from the most wounded soul he's inhabited thus far in his career.
		Wilson Joel is a consolidation of many of these smaller roles, and Hoffman guides him back and forth from debilitating grief to awkward functionality with the same herky-jerky hesitation for which he has become known.
		Philip Seymour Hoffman is such an extraordinary and potent actor that, like the strongest heroin, it's wise to take him in the smallest dose.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_021230loveliza.html (618 words)

	LOVE LIZA
		The film's star — the incredibly talented Philip Seymour Hoffman — usually appears in critically lauded ensemble pictures, but the closer he gets to being a leading man, the more he's praised (Flawless won him a Golden Satellite Award and a Screen Actors Guild nomination).
		Hoffman, (Red Dragon), who once again channels Daniel Clowes' mouthbreathing loser Dan Pussey, plays Wilson Joel, a web designer whose wife Liza recently offed herself with what we can only assume was little or no warning.
		Hoffman, whose older brother Gordy wrote the award-winning script (read our interview with him here), one-ups Nic Cage's Ben Sanderson performance-wise, which is impressive enough, but he also has to carry this entire film on his back.
	www.sick-boy.com /loveliza.htm (399 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Love Liza'
		There are those who are flabbergasted by Hoffman and his counterpart, John C. Reilly, every time they're onscreen.
		Hoffman slouches through this depressing thing looking like a beluga whale with a bad haircut, deliberate suctioning the life out of the part.
		The missed point is that, as written (in the script by Gordy Hoffman, Philip Seymour's brother), he's supposed to be interesting enough to attract women and inspire loyalty.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.30.03/loveliza-0305.html (585 words)

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