Is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Son In Licorice Pizza?

Late actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s son, Cooper Hoffman, starred in ‘Licorice Pizza’ Cooper Hoffman, a warmly raucous look at an ambitious teen on the make in 1980s Los Angeles.

Director of the movie, Paul Thomas Anderson, worked frequently with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in films that ranged from “Boogie Nights” to “Magnolia.”

In “Licorice Pizza,” Anderson has cast Hoffman’s teenage son, Cooper Hoffman, opposite pop singer Alana Haim.

‘Licorice Pizza’ Is based on the early life of Gary Goetzman, a child actor who grew up to become Tom Hanks’s business partner; Licorice Pizza follows Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), a precocious 15-year-old, as he moves on from juvenile leads to selling waterbeds in the suburbs that abut Los Angeles.

He meets an older girl. He rubs up against Hollywood producers. He actually makes money.

None of this would have been remotely conceivable on the other side of the Atlantic in the same year. “The business of America is business,” Calvin Coolidge didn’t quite say. And sex. And fame. And movies.

For this performance, Cooper Hoffman gained critical acclaim and was nominated for, amongst other awards, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.