A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. He dreams of becoming a driver for the MTA but they remain unfulfilled. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who also directs, plays Jack, a down-on-his-luck limo driver in New York City. Customer Review: Jack Goes Boating. 5 star 49% Overture Films. Bob Glaudini’s Jack Goes Boating, known mostly from its initial production turned into a film directed by and starring the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, was staged at the Paradise Factory in the East Village by The Seeing Place company in an intimate, almost too detail-filled production directed by Erin Cronican.. Upload your video. Overture Films . 3.6 out of 5. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Richard Petrocelli. Customer reviews. It’s not a knockout debut, but it should’ve been the first in a long line of films Hoffman would helm (just a few days before he passed, Hoffman’s second project behind the camera was announced, a 1920s drama starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal ). Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. 139 global ratings. Jack is a quiet, reserved, shy, and lonely man. But as Jack and Connie take tentative, sometimes clumsy steps toward love, Clyde and Lucy's relationship threatens to collapse from betrayal and jealousy. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Richard Petrocelli. Jack Goes Boating: Jack And Clyde Talk . Fortunately, Hoffman and Ryan always reach for the hopeful (and often humorous) side of their characters, while Ortiz and Rubin-Vega vacillate between tenderness and unsettling bitterness. There isn’t much of a plot to Jack Goes Boating. All in all, Jack Goes Boating is fine. by Joel Benjamin . 3.6 out of 5 stars. JACK GOES BOATING is a slow character study based on a stage play. Jack Goes Boating Philip Seymour Hoffman John Ortiz Amy Ryan (2010) An unassuming limo driver (Philip Seymour Hoffman) begins a tentative romance, while a best friend (John Ortiz) faces the dissolution of his marriage. Next page. Jack Goes Boating ( 128 ) IMDb 6.4 1h 30min 2010 R Academy-Award-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman directs, produces, and stars alongside Academy-Award-nominee Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, and Daphne Rubin-Vega in this unconventional romantic comedy about the prevailing grace of the human spirit. A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. Video. Connie inspires Jack to improve himself: he starts learning to cook and to swim (so that he and Connie can go boating in the summer to come). In the wrong hands, Jack Goes Boating would flounder in angst and sappiness. After "Jack Goes Boating" with Connie, then Jack can go music shopping with the embalmer's assistant and find a new song that describes their new life together, since his Rastafarian pretensions is a thing of the past. See full review. There are echoes of everything from The Fisher King to Punch-Drunk Love in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s subdued directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating, but screenwriter Bob Glaudini—who adapted his own play—finds a few particularly touching grace notes in the familiar dynamic. Onsite Associates Program .

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