Weak and very incomplete documentary-drama about Jimmy Hoffa. From Wikipedia: Hoffa was involved with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, as an organizer from 1932 to 1975. He served as the union's General President from 1958 to 1971. He secured the first national agreement for teamsters' rates in 1964, and played a major role in the growth and development of the union, which eventually became the largest single union in the United States, with over 1.5 million members during his terms as its leader. Hoffa, who had been convicted of jury tampering, attempted bribery, and fraud in 1964, was imprisoned in 1967, sentenced to 13 years,
The movie presented him as a unscrupulous union organizer and thug. Aspects of his life, including hearings before Congress appeared unrealistic. A better movie to watch was probably the biography about him produced by A&E.
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