Hoffman (film)

Hoffman
Film Poster
Directed byAlvin Rakoff
Written byErnest Gébler
Based onthe novel Shall I Eat You Now? by Ernest Gebler
Produced byBen Arbeid
StarringPeter Sellers
Sinéad Cusack
Ruth Dunning
Jeremy Bulloch
CinematographyGerry Turpin
Edited byBarrie Vince
Music byRon Grainer
Production
companies
Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC)
Longstone Film Productions
Distributed byAnglo-EMI (UK)
Release date
  • July 16, 1970 (1970-07-16)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budgetunder £500,000[2]

Hoffman is a 1970 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Ruth Dunning and Jeremy Bulloch.[3] It is the tale of an older man who blackmails an attractive young woman into spending a week with him in his flat in London, hoping that she will forget her crooked fiancé and fall in love with him instead.[4]

The film features one of Sellers' rare non-comedic performances.

  1. ^ "Hoffman (1970)". Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference bryan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Hoffman (1969)". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.
  4. ^ HOFFMAN Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 37, Iss. 432, (Jan 1, 1970) p. 156.