Dustin Hoffman to make directorial debut

Dustin Hoffman is set to make his directorial debut with new film ‘Quartet’.

The comedy will star Dame Maggie Smith, Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay.

“It’’s a story about people, as he (Hoffman) puts it, in their third act,” the Mirror quoted the film’’s producer Stewart Mackinnnon, as saying.

He added: “Although their faculties may be diminishing, their foibles, their flaws, passions for life are in no way reduced, so in that sense it’’s a positive, life-affirming film.”