Hoffa
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Actor: Armand Assante, Cliff Gorman, Don Brockett, Kevin Anderson, Nicholas GiordanoPrimary Contributor: Jack Nicholson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Hoffa
DVD Review: ROMANTICIZED NICHOLSON VEHICLE
Summary: 4 Stars
Hoffa is a 1992 biographical film based on the life and mysterious death of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Although it chronicles Hoffa's early years in Michigan to his leadership in New York City and Washington, D.C. and his death in a Detroit suburb, almost all of the film was shot in and around Pittsburgh with the city's landmarks (such as Gateway Center in the "Idlewild Airport" scene) serving as backdrops for the various locales in the film. WHAT TROUBLES ME ABOUT THE MOVIE IS THE DETOUR TO FICTION. THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT IT AS AUTHENTIC AS IS POSSIBLE. Jack Nicholson plays James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa, with Danny DeVito playing Robert "Bobby" Ciaro as well as directing the movie. The Ciaro character was actually an amalgamation of several Hoffa associates over the years. The film also stars John C. Reilly, Robert Prosky, Kevin Anderson, Armand Assante, and J. T. Walsh. The screenplay is written by David Mamet. The original music score is composed by David Newman. The film is marketed with the tagline "The man who was willing to pay the price for power."
The movie has an R rating, due to violence and strong language
DVD Review: Just a Note/not a review
Summary: 4 Stars
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 movie deserved more critical acclaim..it was visually stunning and told a good story about a man who didn't fit your Hollywood stereotypes...DVD Review: Hoffa revie
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: "You want to say thank you?? Say it to him"
Summary: 3 Stars
"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 early going and sprinkles it with interruptions from what is to be the "current day" in the film. It's very difficult to grasp who is who and what is going on in the first hour of the film. Thankfully, it does slow down and as soon as Attorney General Bobby Kennedy is introduced to the plot, the films takes off.
I'm sure the ending is ficticious, as nobody has ever known what happened to Jimmy Hoffa, but it was creative and VERY believable. Also, I believe Danny Devito's character is ficticious as well.
Worth a rent. Not sure if I could sit through this one again though.
DVD Review: I Didn't Get It
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
Description of Hoffa
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.
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
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