Dustin Hoffman is every bit the movie star: charismatic, charming, knows how to work a room, yet remains unpretentious in the process. Commenting on how busy he is at the Toronto Film Festival where he is enthusiastically promoting his latest film Moonlight Mile, and his first major movie since his supporting role in 1999's The Messenger, Hoffman quips: "Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes," he jokingly says of the limited time we have to spend chatting with an actor who loves to talk. Hoffman is ... known for his thoroughness in preparing for a role, no more so than in Moonlight Mile, in which he plays the grieving father of a daughter killed in a freak shooting. Near the end, he says goodbye to his daughter's would-be fiancé (Jake Gyllenhaal), then immediately turns away from the camera. When asked why he turned his back, there is a pause as Hoffman's memory of the day's shooting takes on an emotional tone.