1. Midnight Cowboy
2. The Graduate
3. Straw Dogs
4. Lenny
5. Little Big Man

1. the graduate
2. rain man

Big 12...how could you create a thread and a top 5 list without "Rain Man"? Tisk-tisk.

Little Big Man
The Graduate
Marathon Man
Rain Man
Kramer vs. Kramer

No "Outbreak"?

1. Kramer vs. Kramer
2. Tootsie
3. Midnight Cowboy
4. The Graduate
5. Papillon

Papillon is the only one I like and that is only because of Steve.

I just remembered Little Big Man, that was a good one.

Not a big Dustin Hoffman fan at all.

Little Big Man is a classic.

1. Rain Man
2. The Graduate
3. Outbreak

No particular order...
- Marathon Man
- All The President's Men
- Finding Neverland
- Rain Man
- The Graduate

... and Hook!

Papillion was an incredible movie.

He loved solitary...

Dustin Hoffman in Star Wars was his best work.

No love for Ishtar.

The Graduate
Rain Man
Papillon
Midnight Cowboy
Kramer Vs. Kramer

"The Graduate"

"Midnight Cowboy"

"Tootsie"

"Rain Man"

"Little Big Man"



I thought he was also good in "Confidence" in a supporting role and here's the review I posted:

"Confidence" is a movie that I think most viewers will enjoy.

If you like caper flics such as "Catch Me If You Can," "The Usual Suspects," "Get Shorty" or others in that genre, then this one will probably deliver for you too.

Dustin Hoffman was the highlight for me.

Those old enough to remember his tour-de-force, seminal role in "Midnight Cowboy," playing a New York City street person, who befriends and then depends on Jon Voight, might recognize a lot of his shtick from that performance in this film.

Imagine with me for a moment that Hoffman’s "Midnight Cowboy" character, Ratso Rizzo, didn't croak on that final bus trip to Miami; but, instead, he's been locked away in a mental institution for all these intervening years, mistakenly diagnosed as an autistic "Rain Man."

Just to belabor my pointless point, he could have just as easily instead spent those same lost decades condemned on Devil's Island with another French prisoner, who sported a big butterfly tattooed on his chest, or even as a crafty female impersonator named "Tootsie," toiling undercover on soapbox TV, before finally achieving enough mental clarity or career direction to now re-emerge as "Ratso Redux," the seedy racketeer, vicious loan shark, anally overbearing strip club owner and probably multisexual creep that Dustin portrays in this brand new film.

Hey, I just said to imagine.

Anyway, whether that was Ratso reprised or not, Dustin Hoffman was too cool.

The rest of this movie is good enough, but for me the best fun was watching Dustin, while flashing on the admittedly bizarre thought that maybe Ratso Rizzo really never died, but instead overcame whatever, found a cure for his hacking cough and shambling limp and finally clawed his way up to what he would have considered "the big time."

If you rent or remember "Midnight Cowboy" and then catch "Confidence," you too might enjoy contemplating this tenuous cinematic link that stretches across 35 years of real time.

But I trust normal viewing folk will be able to enjoy the current movie just fine as it stands on its own, sans any reflections on the possible return of Ratso Rizzo.


Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

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[This message has been edited by FAST FRED (edited 3/9/2005 6:26p).]