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starring: Kevin Anderson, Armand Assante, Don Brockett, Nicholas Giordano, Cliff Gorman
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302731224
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302731224
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 23, 1993
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 5357
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1992
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Description:
Screenwriter David Mamet's script combines real people with fictional characters in an attempt to portray the important people in Jimmy Hoffa's life. Danny DeVito's and Armand Assante's characters are actually composites of numerous Hoffa associates.
Director/co-star Danny DeVito's unforgettable epic stars Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa, the legendary Teamster boss whose mysterious disappearance has never been explained. The film traces Hoffa's passionate struggle to shape the nation's most influential labor union, his relationship with the Mob, and his subsequent conviction and prison term at the hand of Robert Kennedy.
Amazon.com essential video:
A titanic performance by Jack Nicholson powers this fact-and-fiction biography of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. From the opening moment--Hoffa sitting alone in the back of a car--Nicholson's performance is one of his best, and a rare role as a historical person. The sweeping all-American story of a common worker who reaches the highest pinnacle in the world's most powerful union is sweepingly told with wondrous detail, in wardrobe, sets, and trucks. The better-documented facts of Hoffa's life, including his struggle against Attorney General Bobby Kennedy (Kevin Anderson), supply the backbone of the story. But the hope of what the Teamsters are to the American Dream is what makes the film glow (swept along by David Newman's score). The screenplay by David Mamet takes two wild and entertaining divergences from fact. The first is the character of Hoffa's ubiquitous sidekick Bobby Ciaro, played by the film's director, Danny DeVito. It's a fictitious role, a composite character that allows the story to be clearly told, as does the second--Mamet's explanation of Hoffa's famous disappearance. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Just a Note/not a review
This DVD version differs at least in one respect to the theatrical release....it deletes the scene where Hoffa is in prison and there is a discussion on the assisination of Kennedy..tho not blatant, the discussion seemed to implicate Hoffa and the Mob...and its odd that in the DVD added material following the movie there is a section title "excised scenes", but it does not mention this one....must have been some litigation involved....(not that the deleted scene detracts from the overall plot)...This ... Read More
Rating:  - Hoffa revie
a great movie depicting the trial and tribulations of the working man, while being used by his employers, and ultimately used by the union heads in their quest for power.
Rating:  - "You want to say thank you?? Say it to him"
"Hoffa" starring Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito is an entertaining film that seems to capture most of the life of the union boss who was Jimmy Hoffa. The setting, dialogue and wardrobe are all impeccable and the acting is top-notch as well. What I didn't like was both the pace of the film and that way in which the story flows.
In what feels to be an attempt to cram the man's life into a 2 hr 20 min movie, Devito whizzes the viewer through various random stages of Hoffa's life in the film's ... Read More
Rating:  - I Didn't Get It
I'm not quite sure what I saw: the movie jumped from time capsule to time capsule: it presumed a lot of knowledge from the viewer. It is a disinterested and hurried attempt to try to piece together a coherent view of one of the most vicious and self-serving figures in American public life. Hoffa was no hero to anybody.
Besides, I know where he really is.
Rating:  - What the ????
I may be confused, but I think these movie descriptions and reviews are all about the wrong movie. I have a copy of "Hoffa - The True Story" which is an A&E documentary from 1992 Hosted by Peter Graves. It is not the same as the DeVito/Nicholson movie "Hoffa" by 20th Century Fox.
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