[2] He grew up in Payette, Idaho, played basketball, and attended college at Boise State University.
[7] Befriended by John Schlesinger, who provided the funding, Hoffman's next film was Restless Natives, a humorous look at young Scottish boys who hold up tour buses.
His other credits include Some Girls, starring a young Patrick Dempsey, Restoration with Robert Downey, Jr., One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney, Soapdish with Sally Field and Kevin Kline, A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which he also wrote the screenplay based on the work by Shakespeare, and The Emperor's Club (starring Kline and Emile Hirsch).
[8] Hoffman wrote and directed The Last Station (2009), based on the final years of Leo Tolstoy's life, starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti.
[10] The film was shot in 2017 and intended for release in 2018 but was canceled in November 2017 after Spacey's sexual misconduct was revealed in late October.