Hoffa (1992)

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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 25, 1992
Running Time: 140 mins. (V)
Running Time: 110 mins. (NYT)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Biographical drama on the late Teamsters Union leader, Jimmy Hoffa.
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James R Hoffa
Bobby Ciaro
Carol D'Allesandro
Fitzsimmons
Pete Connelly
Young Kid
Robert Kennedy
Red Bennett
Billy Flynn
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February 13, 2001
In the more ambitious Hoffa, Nicholson plays the Detroit street fighter who rose from the ranks of trucker and labor organizer to build the Teamsters into the nation's most powerful union. The boldness of director Danny DeVito's violent epic is matched by Nicholson's astonishing physical and vocal transformation into Jimmy Hoffa. The changeover might constrict another actor. Not Nicholson.

And not writer David Mamet, who dares a sympathetic portrait of the bluecollar battler whom most people… Continued