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“Do you know why he wants to win? So he has the money to keep losing.” — Maury Chaykin, Owning Mahowny

There’s an essential loneliness to a Philip Seymour Hoffman character, a sense that no matter how many people surround him—or, in the case of The Master, treat him as a prophet—that he’s on an island, isolated by the narrowness of his own obsessions. He’s the sound man secretly pining for Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. His iconoclastic writers in Almost Famous and Capote are temperamentally at odds—Lester Bangs the exuberant flamethrower, Truman Capote the odd introvert—but they each cling to a new relationship like a life raft. The maverick CIA operative in Charlie Wilson’s War, the high school teacher with a crush on his student in 25th Hour, the Charlie Kaufman surrogate in Synecdoche, New York: These are not men with families or close friends or anything approaching a conventional, balanced life. They are walking preoccupations. 

Twenty years ago, Hoffman took the title role in the Canadian independent film Owning Mahowny. It was just his

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