 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 appeared with Andy García and Meg Ryan in the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman . He then played a police deputy who gets punched by Paul Newman – one of Hoffman 's acting idols – in the drama Nobody 's Fool . 
