Dustin Hoffman’s Directorial Debut “Quartet” Trailer Releases

If you’re like me, your first thought at watching the trailer for Quartet is that it looks like it should have been called Harry Potter and the Retirement Home for Former Teachers at Hogwarts. I mean, there’s Dumbledore and McGonagall, both duking it out in miserly British fashion in what I assume is supposed to be a heartwarming story about old people being set in their ways and then discovering that they can in fact make fine muggle music together. Directed by Hollywood legend Dustin Hoffman in his first feature behind the camera, Quartet releases December 28, just in time for the Oscar season it was clearly designed to bait.