Jonathan Agosto

Hoffa The Movie
The movie “Hoffa” told the story of Jimmy R. Hoffa. He is one of the greatest labor leaders in American history. In his lifetime, he accomplished great feats, and overcame many hard-ships. The movie Hoffa portrayed Jimmy Hoffa as a man working for the Teamsters. He was a hard working worker and devoted himself for the better of the workers, the truck drivers, whom were being treated terribly and paid scarcely. The Teamsters was a union for these truck drivers, helping them to get better rights and more pay. Jimmy Hoffa was illustrated as a heroic leader in Hoffa. He determinedly led millions of truck drivers to better rights, no matter what Jimmy Hoffa had to do. Nevertheless, his fight was not solely for the truckers, or even teamsters, but indeed for himself to, as he told Bobby, a trucker whom he befriended.
“Hoffa” traces the labor leader's thirty years of violent influence. The story is told in several flashback sequences, opening in 1975, as Bobby Ciaro and Jimmy Hoffa are awaiting a meeting. Ciaro reminisces of when he and Hoffa first met in 1938. Jimmy Hoffa approaches a parked truck, inside of which driver Ciaro is taking a nap. Hoffa talks to him about the benefits of joining the Teamsters. He 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 about their ride together and Ciaro is fired. He later accosts Hoffa with a knife, but is persuaded to drop it at gunpoint by Hoffa's associate Billy Flynn. Jimmy offers Ciaro an opportunity for work and he joins the pair in the arson bombing of a laundry whose owner has refused to cooperate with the Teamsters. Flynn is severely burned and dies. Ciaro succeeds him as Hoffa's right-hand man.
Another flashback shows a Teamsters strike. While strikers fight with non-union workers and police, Hoffa is taken to a local Mafia boss. Ciaro, who speaks Italian, comes along. An alliance between the Teamsters and the mob is formed. Hoffa meets D'Allesandro, who would become his closest mob ally.
Hoffa rises to the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. His illegal activities include the use of Teamster funds to provide loans to the mob. At a Congressional hearing, Hoffa is questioned by Robert F. Kennedy regarding his suspicious union activities. The tension between Kennedy and Hoffa grows, especially after John F. Kennedy is elected President and Brother Bobby becomes Attorney General.
Hoffa is betrayed by a junior associate, Peter Connelly, in court. The evidence used against him is the plans he wrote on the back of a hunting license. He surrenders to federal officials and serves time in a Pennsylvania federal prison while Frank Fitzsimmons takes his place as Teamsters boss. Ciaro, also convicted and imprisoned, is freed before Hoffa and upon his release gets to work trying to free Hoffa. D'Allesandro suggests that the Teamsters endorse Richard M. Nixon for President, the idea being that if Nixon wins, a friendly administration will arrange for Hoffa's release.
Hoffa gets out and expects to again run the Teamsters, but he isn’t allowed to participate in any union activities for ten years. Hoffa meets with D'Allesandro and is shown screaming at the gangster that Hoffa wants Fitzsimmons dead. D'Allesandro tells Hoffa that he's 'too hot' and that 'I can't get close to it'. Hoffa leaves with the matter unresolved. Sometime later, Hoffa tells D’Allesandro that unless the matter of Fitzsimmons can be settled, Hoffa will go to the press and detail his dealings with D'Allesandro. D'Allesandro then tells Ciaro to tell Hoffa that 'everything's gonna be all right' and also that Ciaro should tell Hoffa 'I know he doesn't mean it' and that they should all meet the next day at 'The Roadhouse', a local diner. Hoffa and Ciaro spend several hours waiting for D'Allesandro in the parking lot of the diner but he never arrives.
A union driver who had been waiting in the diner, allegedly for a part for his truck, reveals himself to be a 'hit man' after gaining the trust of Ciaro during short conversations over the course of the long wait. Just exactly who sent this 'hit man' is not revealed, however the implication is that he was sent by D'Allesandro in retaliation for Hoffa's threat to 'go to the press'. Hoffa is gunned down in the back seat of his car and Ciaro is shot while attempting to come to Hoffa's aid. Ciaro's body is dumped on top of Hoffa's and the car is driven into the back of a large truck that had driven up as the shootings were taking place The camera focuses on the roll-up door of the truck showing the different state plates, implying a final bit of irony: that Hoffa's dead body is being transported, in all likelihood, by a "Teamster driver." The truck drives off into the sunset and the movie ends.