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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After confronting Detroit mob boss Carl D'Allesandro about the deal the Teamsters engineered with the DOJ to get him out of prison, a deal that prohibited him from working in organized labor for 10 years, Hoffa has his associate Bobby Ciaro go to D'Allesandro to tell him that if the mob doesn't get that prohibition removed then Hoffa would go to the press about the Teamsters alliance with the mob. Which leads to D'Allesandro immediately deciding that both Hoffa and Ciaro are no longer of any use to the mob, and soon after orders a hit on both men.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The last frame of the movie is of the truck carrying Hoffa's body driving off into the sunset and eventually fading from sight.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/FrankWhaley, who played the hitman hired by the mob to kill Hoffa, appeared in ''Literature/Ironweed'', another film starring Jack Nicholson, where Whaley played Jack's character as a teenager.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/FrankWhaley, who played the hitman hired by the mob to kill Hoffa, appeared in ''Literature/Ironweed'', ''Literature/{{Ironweed}}'', another film starring Jack Nicholson, where Whaley played Jack's character as a teenager.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/FrankWhaley, who played the hitman hired by the mob to kill Hoffa, appeared in ''Literature/Ironweed'', another film starring Jack Nicholson, where Whaley played Jack's character as a teenager.
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* LeftYourLifesaverBehind: Hoffa borrows Ciaro's gun while he waits in the car. Later Ciaro sees a hitman draw a silenced pistol on the unsuspecting Hoffa, reaches for his now-empty shoulder holster, then gets shot as he desperately rushes to save his friend.
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* LeftYourLifesaverBehind: Hoffa borrows Ciaro's gun while he waits in the car. Later Ciaro sees a hitman draw a silenced pistol on the unsuspecting Hoffa, reaches for his now-empty shoulder holster, then gets shot himself as he desperately rushes to save his friend.
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* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the 1970s.
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* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the mid 1970s.
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* VictoryThroughIntimidation: Ciaro succeeds in his quest to get a newspaper reporter to kill an unfavorable story about Hoffa by sending him a jar containing human male reproductive organs.
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Hoffa is a 1992 American biographical film directed by Creator/DannyDeVito that follows Jimmy Hoffa's (Creator/JackNicholson) life before his infamous disappearance in 1975.
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Hoffa is a 1992 American biographical film directed by Creator/DannyDeVito that follows Jimmy Hoffa's UsefulNotes/JimmyHoffa's (Creator/JackNicholson) life before his infamous disappearance in 1975.
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* AnachronicOrder: The movie alternates between Hoffa and Ciaro waiting in the parking lot outside a restaurant for a meeting and telling the story of Hoffa's career as a union organizer.
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* AnachronicOrder: The movie alternates between Hoffa and Ciaro waiting in the parking lot outside a restaurant for a meeting and telling the story of Hoffa's career as a union organizer.official who started out as organizer who worked his way up to President before being forced out of the union for ten years in exchange for a pardon.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro [=DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull out guns. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me the knife. You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro [=DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull partner Billy Flynn pulls out guns. a gun. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me Flynn orders Ciaro to give him the knife. You knife, telling him that, "You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The restaurant that Hoffa and Ciaro are waiting at is depicted as a roadside diner out in the middle of the country. Hoffa was last seen at the Machus Red Fox, an upscale restaurant in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, which even in the 1970s was fairly built up and no longer a rural area.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The restaurant that Hoffa and Ciaro are waiting at is depicted as a roadside diner out in the middle of the country. The real Hoffa was last seen at the Machus Red Fox, an upscale restaurant in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, which even in the 1970s was fairly built up and no longer a rural area.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The restaurant that Hoffa and Ciaro are waiting at is depicted as a roadside diner out in the middle of the country. Hoffa was last seen at the Machus Red Fox, an upscale restaurant in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, which even in the 1970s was fairly built up and no longer a rural area.
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It was released on December 25, 1992.
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* SupportingProtagonist: The film is seen through the eyes of Jimmy Hoffa's best friend, who is played by Danny [=DeVito=].
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* SupportingProtagonist: The film is seen through the eyes of Jimmy Hoffa's best friend, who is played by Danny [=DeVito=].[=DeVito=].
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* AnachronicOrder: The movie alternates between Hoffa and Ciaro waiting in the parking lot outside a restaurant for a meeting and telling the story of Hoffa's career as a union organizer.
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* CompositeCharacter: Ciaro is an amalgamation of several Hoffa associates.
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* TheStoolPigeon: Amusingly, Creator/JohnCReilly's mother thought he was one after she watched the scene where his ''character'' turns on Hoffa during a trial, even though said character was telling the truth.
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* CigaretteBurns: Bobby Ciaro has burns on his fingers because he's [[NoOshaCompliance forced to drive long hours by his employers]], and so holds a lit cigarette between his fingers to wake him up if he falls asleep at the wheel.
* DramaticIrony: A Teamsters truck is used to dispose of Hoffa's body.
* DramaticIrony: A Teamsters truck is used to dispose of Hoffa's body.
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* LeftYourLifesaverBehind: Hoffa borrows Ciaro's gun while he waits in the car. Later Ciaro sees a hitman draw a silenced pistol on the unsuspecting Hoffa, reaches for his now-empty shoulder holster, then gets shot as he desperately rushes to save his friend.
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A 1992 American biography film directed by Creator/DannyDeVito that follows Jimmy Hoffa's (Creator/JackNicholson) life before his infamous disappearance in 1975.
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Hoffa is a 1992 American
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro (=DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull out guns. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me the knife. You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro (=DeVito=] [=DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull out guns. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me the knife. You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro (=[DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull out guns. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me the knife. You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro (=[DeVito=] (=DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull out guns. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me the knife. You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
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* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the 1970s.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Bobby Ciaro (=[DeVito=] pulls out a knife he uses for defense. Hoffa's goons pull out guns. After he joins with Hoffa's crew, one of Hoffa's cronies tells him, "Give me the knife. You wanna go around, go like a white man. Get a gun."
* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the1970s.1970s.
* SupportingProtagonist: The film is seen through the eyes of Jimmy Hoffa's best friend, who is played by Danny [=DeVito=].
* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the
* SupportingProtagonist: The film is seen through the eyes of Jimmy Hoffa's best friend, who is played by Danny [=DeVito=].
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A 1992 American biography film directed by Creator/DannyDeVito that follows Jimmy Hoffa's (Creator/JackNicholson) life before his infamous disappearance in 1975.
The movie also stars Creator/ArmandAssante, [=DeVito=], Creator/JTWalsh, and Creator/RobertProsky.
It was released on December 25, 1992.
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* {{Biopic}}: Tells the life of Jimmy Hoffa and his disappearance.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** UsefulNotes/JimmyHoffa, Teamsters leader with ties to the mob.
** UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy, US Attorney General who feuds with Hoffa.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the 1970s.
The movie also stars Creator/ArmandAssante, [=DeVito=], Creator/JTWalsh, and Creator/RobertProsky.
It was released on December 25, 1992.
!Tropes for the film:
* {{Biopic}}: Tells the life of Jimmy Hoffa and his disappearance.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
** UsefulNotes/JimmyHoffa, Teamsters leader with ties to the mob.
** UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy, US Attorney General who feuds with Hoffa.
* PeriodPiece: Takes place from 1930s to the 1970s.
