Hoffa

When Bobby holds a knife to Hoffa's throat in the alley, they are approached by Billy Flynn.

Flynn pulls a revolver from his coat and cocks it, but it is uncocked/cocked in subsequent shots.

When Hoffa is elected president of the Teamsters, the band plays the song "Hey, Look Me Over" from the Broadway musical "Wildcat".

Hoffa was elected in 1957; "Wildcat" premiered in 1960.

When Jimmy and Billy torch bomb the building, they create a blast so intense, it blows out the passenger side window on Bobby's truck.

Yet in the following shots, the window goes from being intact, to being shattered.

When Bobby makes his final phone call, it is 7:12 and he says they have been waiting for 4 hours, which would be 3:12.

The meeting was set for 2:00.

When Hoffa is shot for the final time, the back window of his car is shattered, but when it is driven up into the back of the semi, you can see the window is undamaged.

In addition to Billy Flynn having a revolver that is constantly cocked-uncocked, as the revolver is brought to a vertical position as Billy is uncocking it for the final time it somehow changes from a modern (for the time) double action revolver to a single action Colt.

All of this happening within the 90 degree sweep from horizontal to vertical.

In the scene where Hoffa, Billy Flynn, and Bobby Ciaro are preparing to set fire to a laundromat, Hoffa tells Ciaro to stay in the truck's cab and keep the engine running and in gear.

This makes no sense, since Ciaro would have to keep the clutch down for the entire time it takes Hoffa and Flynn to set the fire.

It would make more sense for Ciaro to keep the transmission running in idle, then quickly put it in gear for the getaway when Hoffa and Flynn are about to re-enter the truck.

In the car, Bobby reaches for his cup of coffee twice.

The car in which Hoffa is shot is a 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Brogham.

Hoffa disappeared in 1975.

Actually the 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood was a carryover from 1975.

So there is no way to know if this is the correct vehicle, however, since Hoffa disappeared in 1975 this vehicle would be the appropriate vintage for the final scene.

It couldn't be easy to make a film about a man whose story has no ending. But Danny DeVito and David Mamet tackle just that story in Hoffa, a biopic about the legendary union leader Jimmy Hoffa.

If you are looking for an honest, true to life account of Jimmy Hoffa's life in his last 20 to 30 years, you wont find it here beyond a vague approximation. This movie takes alot of dramatic license from the invention of DeVito's character, to what is known about Hoffa's last known appearance.

I purchased a new copy of this movie from a seller who listed it on one of the internet "for sale" sites I had checked with my library and also with the video rental store in my area and neither one had the movie available. I had just finished reading the 400+ page book, "Hoffa," by Arthur A.

I don't care that the ending was fictional, because it was poetically correct. The life of Hoffa was poetical in its intensity, and the burning righteousness of the man comes through in this picture.

Controversial, but not among His Loyal Teamsters, Labor Leader Jimmy Hoffa was Dedicated to His Beloved Union and Fought for Them until the very End, some would say "To a fault".He Single-Handedly (almost) Created Collective Bargaining for the Working Man, or at least produced a Union so Powerful it could not be Ignored by the Powerful People of Industry.

2020 has seen the release of the new Hoffa biography *The Irishman* based on Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran's sensationalistic(and fictional) story of how he carried out the hit on James Riddle Hoffa. While an entertaining film Al Pacino was not fit for the role of James R.

This is another of those films of which I saw a tv commercial on tv when I was a kid. I remember it said something like "he sent a dick to the prime minister" and that kept me wondering did I hear right...

This is a really bad movie! It's such a shame that Danny De Vito doesn't stick to directing comedies because he is much more suited to that style.

Written with callous virtuosity by Mamet, directed with garishly vintage technique by DeVito, this hugely underrated, passionate, powerful film not only portrays Hoffa with the enhanced corporal magnitude of Nicholson, who gives a massive thrust of a performance, but it also reshuffles the ladder of American heroes as it's recognized nowadays. Several may be uneasily startled: This stylistic take on the life and mysterious disappearance of the Teamsters Union leader views Robert Kennedy as seen by Hoffa: a bellyaching Harvard-educated well-to-do, frantic for exposure, prepared to use evenhanded ways and biased to catch Hoffa, no equal at all for Hoffa in their incensed altercations.