Philip Seymour Hoffman has won at acting, so having a crack at directing seems like a logical next step. Obviously Hoffman, a famously modest soul, would never put it quite like that, but he's quietly proud of his debut effort: wistful character study Jack Goes Boating.
'The Hoff', as absolutely no-one calls him, plays the titular Jack. He's a chaffeur by trade but, at heart, is a lonely romantic who yearns more than anything for a soulmate (and the odd spliff). And Amy Ryan's shy telemarketer, Connie, could be just the woman for the reggae-loving Jack.
The movie, set in Hoffman's beloved New York, has a new trailer, which you can watch with your very own eyes below. Yes, those *are *dreadlocks. Kinda...
But will it end in sunshine and flowers, or will their mutual friends Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy's (Daphne Rubin-Vega) fraying marriage drip poison into the water?
If you've seen Bob Glaudini's stage play, you'll know the answer to that. If not, you can catch **Jack Goes Boating **when it moors on November 4.