<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $35 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $29.3 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Hoffa is a 1992 American biographical crime film directed by Danny DeVito and written by David Mamet, based on the life of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa . Most of the story is told in flashbacks before ending with Hoffa's mysterious disappearance . Jack Nicholson plays Hoffa, and DeVito plays Robert Ciaro, an amalgamation of several Hoffa associates over the years . The film features John C. Reilly, Robert Prosky, Kevin Anderson, Armand Assante, and J.T. Walsh in supporting roles . The film received mixed reviews and grossed just $29 million against its $35 million budget . </P> <P> On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa and his longtime friend, Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner . Moving in vignettes from his early years when Hoffa was a Teamsters union organizer who was working to organize the various trucking firms and laundries around Detroit, Michigan, Hoffa's life over the preceding four decades gradually unfolds . In 1935, a young Hoffa approaches a parked truck, inside of which driver Ciaro is taking a nap . Hoffa pitches the benefits of joining the Teamsters and gives Ciaro a business card, on which he has written: "Give this man whatever he needs ." A few days later, Ciaro reports to work to find Hoffa attempting to organize the workers . Hoffa blurts out they'd ridden 85 miles together, and Ciaro is fired . Ciaro later accosts Hoffa with a Bowie knife, but Hoffa's associate Billy Flynn pulls a gun and Ciaro drops the knife . Ciaro joins the pair in the arson bombing of a laundry whose owner has refused to cooperate with the Teamsters . Flynn is badly burned and dies . Ciaro succeeds him as Hoffa's right - hand man . </P>

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