Hoffman continued playing small roles throughout the early 1990s. After appearing in "Joey Breaker" and the critically panned teen zombie picture "My Boyfriend's Back", he had a more notable role playing John Cusack's wealthy friend in the crime comedy "Money for Nothing". In 1994, he portrayed an inexperienced mobster in the crime thriller "The Getaway", starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, and he subsequently appeared with Andy García and Meg Ryan in the romantic drama "When a Man Loves a Woman". He then played an uptight police deputy who gets punched by Paul Newman – one of Hoffman's acting idols – in the drama "Nobody's Fool".