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One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, Hoffman sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary (Sinéad Cusack) and, discovering that her boyfriend (Jeremy Bulloch) has been fiddling the books at work, blackmails her into spending a week with him. Their time together reveals Hoffman’s tragic, lonely existence. Alvin Rakoff directs a film which is by turns amusing, poignant and uneasy, and which boasts a central performance so uncomfortable and revealing that its star tried to have the film’s negative destroyed. (Powerhouse Films)
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In Hoffman, Sellers' mastery is fully showcased, not just because he was great for comedic roles, but because he could deliver dramatic, tragic roles in a comedic manner, sometimes freezing you in certain scenes. One of the best and most versatile actors in history.
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