jack nicholson played jimmy hoffa in the movie hoffa.
jack nicholson played jimmy hoffa in the movie hoffa.
who played jimmy hoffa in the movie hoffa?
jack nicholson
the 1992 production "hoffa", starring jack nicholson as famed labor leader jimmy hoffa of the teamsters, begins the story where hoffa's career began: organizing truck drivers and warehouse workers in and around detroit. jimmy hoffa went on to become one of the most powerful labor leaders in u.s. history.









































the 1978 movie "f.i.s.t", tells the same story of hoffa's beginnings as an organiser and of his rise to power, albeit with more liberties taken. sylvester stallone plays hoffa as a man with good intentions, dogged on both sides, by both sides of the law.
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roger ebert gave the film 3.5/4 stars and wrote, "here is a movie that finds the right look and tone for its material. not many directors would have been confident enough to simply show us jimmy hoffa instead of telling us all about him. this is a movie that makes its points between the lines, in what is not said. it's not so much about what happened to jimmy hoffa, as about the fact that something eventually would." peter travers of "rolling stone" also gave the film 3.5/4 stars and said, "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." vincent canby of the new york times wrote: "hoffa is an original work of fiction, based on fact, conceived with imagination and a consistent point of view." canby notes that the film has "a bitterly skeptical edge that is rare in american movies. it forces viewers to make up their own minds, something that can be immensely disorienting as well as rewarding." kenneth turan of the los angeles times wrote: "it is a laconic, enigmatic piece of work, displaying the grace with spoken language that marked "glengarry glen ross" but troublesome in terms of structure and character development."
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