Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to make his directorial debut Off-Broadway play “Jack Goes Boating,” which he’ll also take a starring role.

Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) is set to co-star opposite Hoffman, while John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega are set to reprise their roles from the stage production.

The play is a rather unconventional romantic comedy about four flawed but likeable lower-middle-class New Yorkers finding out  how to stay afloat in the deep water of day-to-day living with cooking classes, swimming lessons and illegal drugs — a story of date panic, marital meltdown, betrayal, and the prevailing grace of the human spirit.