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Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. General as Ridzinski. During that time he appeared in several guest roles on television shows like Naked City and The Defenders. He then starred in the 1966 off-Broadway play Eh? where his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award. His breakthrough role was as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols' critically acclaimed and iconic film The Graduate (1967), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. His next role was "Ratso" Rizzo in John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969), in which he acted alongside Jon Voight; they both received Oscar nominations, and the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. He gained success in the 1970s playing roles that shaped the craft of his acting, crossing genres effortlessly in the western Little Big Man (1970), the prison drama Papillon (1973), playing a controversial and groundbreaking comedian in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1975), Marathon Man alongside Laurence Olivier (1976), and as Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal in All the President's Men (1976). In 1979, Hoffman starred in the family drama Kramer vs. Kramer alongside Meryl Streep. They both received Academy Awards for their performances. After a three-year break from films, Hoffman returned in Sydney Pollack's show business comedy Tootsie (1982) about a struggling actor who pretends to be a woman in order to get an acting role. He returned to stage acting with a 1984 performance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and reprised the role a year later in a television film earning a Primetime Emmy Award. In 1987 he starred alongside Warren Beatty in Elaine May's comedy Ishtar. He won his second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the autistic savant Ray Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man, co-starring Tom Cruise. In 1989, he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for playing Shylock in a stage performance of The Merchant of Venice. In the 1990s, he made appearances in such films as Warren Beatty's action comedy adaptation Dick Tracy (1990), Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991) as Captain Hook, medical disaster Outbreak (1995), legal crime drama Sleepers (1996), and the satirical black comedy Wag the Dog (1997) alongside Robert De Niro.

3 rich men, John Yen, Pep Cruz and Michael Middleton, meet in a hotel bar. Owns the strongest companies in the transport market. They bet 100M$, each will build a crew of 3 people who must sail through all stations and be the 1st to reach New York for the owner to win all 300M$. The Yen crew is Jack Wong, Sam Ling and Tommy Lee. Cruz's is Jorge Alonso, Xabi Telles and Mario Rodriguez. Middleton's is Jack White, Luke Farnsworth and Axel Donovan. 10 ports have been selected where each crew must anchor and report to a person who oversees it and reports everything to the trio in San Diego. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai/Bombay, Alexandria, Marseille, Casablanca, Recife, San Juan, New York. 3 men watch everything every day at a bar in San Diego, where they are served by bartender Nur Rimberg (Bruneian mom, German Dad). After ships leave, Yen and others receive letter, from secret sender Cobra, saying that he knows about the bet and he wants to join and if he makes that neither ship reaches New York, then he wins. They have to include him or he will kill them. Cobra hires 7 men, their task is to liquidate the ships, even at the cosi of killing the crew. They attack the ship from the start, destroying Cruz's crew at Alexandria, only Telles survived and boarded Middleton's ship. Both destroyed ships sail to Recife, where Yen's ship is also sunk, Sam Ling was killed and the others got on Middleton's ship, which finally sailed to San Diego. The Cobra was Nur Rimberg.


