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Released
1992 · FILM

Hoffa

Union boss Jimmy Hoffa fights to seize control of America’s most powerful labor syndicate while battling relentless government pressure and deadly rivalries that could cost him everything.

He Did What He Had to Do.

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Written by
Runtime
140 min
BiographyCrimeDrama

Synopsis

This film portrays union leader James R. Hoffa through the perspective of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. It chronicles Hoffa's numerous conflicts with the Railway Labor Act (RTA) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lynzee KlingmanShot by Stephen H BurumScored by David NewmanDesigned by Ida Random

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$24.3M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$24.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.4M 26% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.6M44% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,066 theaters

Also known as

  • Jimmy Hoffade

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