Jimmy Hoffa (film)

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Movie
German title Jimmy Hoffa
Original title Hoffa
Country of production France / USA
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 140 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Danny DeVito
script David Mamet
production Danny DeVito , Edward R. Pressman , Caldecot Chubb
music David Newman
camera Stephen H. Burum
cut Lynzee Klingman , Ronald Roose
occupation

Jimmy Hoffa is a biographical film from 1992 about the American " Teamsters " union leader Jimmy Hoffa .

content

The film essentially describes the biography of the controversial American union leader Jimmy Hoffa : most of it is told in flashbacks. In 1935, Hoffa began organizing the trucker workers' union. Hoffa uses the connection between his right hand Ciaro and the Italian mafia. The boss, Carol ("Dally") D'Allesandro, becomes Hoffa's closest ally and helps him carry out strikes.

James R. Hoffa is promoted to chair of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Before a congressional committee of inquiry he is interviewed by Robert F. Kennedy , among others . A deep enmity develops between Robert Kennedy and Hoffa, which is intensified by the election of John F. Kennedy as President of the USA. Robert becomes US Attorney General under his brother .

Hoffa later gets into an argument with the boss D'Allesandro and tells him to eliminate a competitor for the chairmanship of the union leadership. He also threatens D'Allesandro to go to the press. Hoffa calms down and arranges to meet him at a remote restaurant on an expressway. The next day Hoffa waits there; However, D'Allesandro does not appear. Hoffa and Ciaro are murdered in front of a fast food restaurant and their bodies are removed by a team of gangsters.

Reviews

On the Rottentomatoes review website , this film has a positive rate of 52% (based on 21 reviews).

Roger Ebert praised in the Chicago Sun-Times of December 25, 1992 the portrayal of Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa and the direction of Danny de Vito, whom he described as a “genuine filmmaker”.

“Although the film, which has a historically unprovable framework, does not withhold the facts, it does so at its own discretion, so that Hoffa's figure is glorified across the board. Cinematically busy and elaborate with daring tracking shots and ingenious scene transitions meticulously staged, but without dramatic fire that could bring the backgroundless figure to life. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 for camera work (Stephen H. Burum) and for make-up ( Ve Neill , Greg Cannom and John Blake) . Jack Nicholson was nominated on the one hand in 1993 for the Golden Globe on the other hand for the Golden Raspberry for the worst actor for the film year 1992.

Stephen H. Burum won the American Society of Cinematographers Award in 1993 . The film won the Political Film Society Award in 1992 (in the Political Film Society Award for Exposé ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jimmy Hoffa at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. ↑ Jimmy Hoffa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 26, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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