Hoffa
Dir: Danny DeVito
1992
*****
It's sad that most people remember Jack Nicholson's performance in A Few Good Men (made around the same time) over his performance in Hoffa. I don't quite understand it. Jack Nicholson's performance in Hoffa is one of the best of his career. Supposedly Danny DeVito sunk most of his money into making Hoffa and money well spent it was too, maybe not for return but this is an American classic. Both Oliver Stone and Barry Levinson passed when offered to direct but in my mind DeVito's direction was better than a lot of their collective work. The speculative ending was also very well handled in what is essentially still and open case. It isn't perfect but it's better then most things Scorsese, Stone, Levinson and countless others have done this millennium and it deserves credit.