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Hoffman goes extra 'Mile'

Dustin Hoffman's character in "Moonlight Mile" is named Ben. People immediately think of Benjamin, Hoffman's famous role in "The Graduate." In the new film they see Ben trying to persuade a young man, the fiance of his murdered daughter, to join him in the real estate business. They think they have the key: Benjamin has grown up and, like the adults he scorned in "The Graduate," is offering a young man the key to success.