Every Philip Seymour Hoffman Movie Ranked Worst To Best

In his second and far less successful team-up with director Anthony Minghella, Hoffman brings the only thing worth watching in this stilted and ponderously overlong historical epic, rife with unlikable characters and admittedly magnificent cinematography.

Hoffman stars opposite Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and a bizarre, Oscar-winning Renee Zellweger as racist Reverend Solomon Veasey, who is booted from his parish after attempting to kill a pregnant slave. Hoffman allows Veasey to go a compelling journey to self-improvement, and makes Veasey - for all his eccentricities and hypocrisy - the best character in the film.