Philip Seymour Hoffman, as usual, fully inhabits his role.
Out of curiosity, I looked up Pete Dexter, who wrote the novel this movie is based on. Wow. This guy knows what he's talking about. Here's a bit from Wikipedia's write-up:
He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Schuylkill, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely. The brother of the homicide victim was a bartender at a local bar in the Schuylkill neighborhood and Dexter went to the bar to talk to him because the family had called the newspaper to complain. Dexter was roughed up at that meeting and later returned with his friend heavyweight prizefighter Randall "Tex" Cobb. In the fight that occurred outside the bar in the street, Cobb received a broken arm that helped end his professional boxing career, and Dexter was hospitalized with several injuries, including a broken back, pelvic bone, brain damage, and dental devastation.
Yeah, he's been there, and no, he didn't get his material from watching movies.
Of course, this is a must-see. Absolutely, drop everything, must-see.
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