Favorite Dustin Hoffman Film

Even though he's my favorite actor, I know I've forgotten some, and there's just not room to cover them all. I tried to get them in chronological order...

(The "Kramer vs Kramer" poll made me think of this)

And: Without looking it up, be the first to name for which films he won his Oscars.

He was all wrong for Lenny. Very very wrong.
What the hell was Fosse thinking?

Mornin', sunshine! :hug:

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:banghead:

:loveya:

The makeup was amazing.

Great film.

The slaughter by the river still makes me cry

He has done a lot of really great films but this was always my favorite.

that he paid big money to play that character.

"BENJAMIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


And 'PLASTICS!'

little big man

I'm watching this right now.

And loving it!

:hi:

But about a foot shorter. :)

I deleted my previous post.

Too many errors, and too many spoilers trying to correct the errors.

See it. It's a great story.

I liked that one, too.

yeah...

Since I'm a runner, gotta go with that one.

"Is it safe?"

:hi:

But "Kramer vs. Kramer" is also good.

Very powerful picture. I love the epic sweep: I saw the movie at a young age and it really blew my mind (as did Faye Dunaway!)and primed me to read every Michener I could get my hands on. Michener had nothing to do with LBM but his novels have a "since the beginning" feel to them.

Another movie of the period, Soldier Blue, examined the massacre by the river which I believe was the Sand Creek action.

Another theme I loved was what wild stories there are in some of the apparent shells of people in the Nursing homes. This has informed my life-- John Prine's "hello in there", etc.

Another is just how bogus the race meme was: a little dirt and you are a colored indian, clean up and you are a little white boy. This was in the early seventies when lawful segregation of "races" was a recent memory and the apparatus of brutal enforcement was still in place in many parts of the country.

Epic, classic, timeless. A beautiful movie.