HOFFA (1992)

Directed By: Danny DeVito Written By: David Mamet  Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum  Editor: Lynzee Klingman & Ronald Roose  Music by: David Newman

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Frank Whaley, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly, Kevin Anderson, Robert Prosky, Cliff Gorman, Paul Guilfoyle, Karen Young, John P. Ryan

portrait of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro. This film follows Hoffa's struggle to shape America's most influential labor union through his countless battles with the RTA. As he fights for workers' rights, Hoffa locks horns with industry management, organized crime and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1975, four years after serving his prison term, Hoffa disappears, in one of America's most fascinating unsolved crime mysteries.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0064:THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)

Directed By: Brian DePalma 
Written By: David Mamet 
Suggested By A Book By: Elliot Ness & Oscar Fraley 
Cinematography: Stephen H Burum 
Editor: Jerry Greenberg & Bill Pankow 

Cast: Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Bradford, Billy Drago, Patricia Clarkson, Don Harvey, Jack Kehoe, Del Close 

During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.

HOMICIDE (1991)

Written & Directed By: David Mamet 
Cinematography By: Roger Deakins 
Editor: Barbara Tulliver 

Cast: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, J.J. Johnston, Rebecca Pidgeon, Vincent Gustaferro, Ron Butler, Erica Gimpel, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Katz, Ricky Jay 


Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murderer that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old Jewish lady in a black area. The evidence points at a Jewish hate group and he discovers connections between them and his previous case.

STATE & MAIN (2000)

Written & Directed By: David Mamet 
Cinematography By: Oliver Stapleton 
Editor: Barbara Tulliver 


Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy, Ricky Jay, Rebecca Pidgeon, Clark Gregg, Julia Stiles, Matt Malloy, Charles Durning, Patti LuPone, Laura Silverman, David Paymer, Jonathan Katz

HEIST (2001)

Written & Directed By: David Mamet 
Cinematography By: Robert Elswit 
Editor: Barbara Tulliver 

Cast: Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sam Rockwell, Delroy Lindo, Danny DeVito, Ricky Jay, Patti LuPone