{"product_id":"hoffman-le-us","title":"HOFFMAN - LE [US]","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Alvin Rakoff, 1970)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: 17 January 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eLimited Edition Blu-ray (World Blu-ray premiere)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoffman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary (Sinéad Cusack,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTam Lin,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevenge\u003c\/em\u003e) and, discovering that her boyfriend (Jeremy Bulloch,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Spy Who Loved Me\u003c\/em\u003e) has been fiddling the books at work, blackmails her into spending a week with him. 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