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Robert "Bobby" Ciaro (died 30 July 1975) was a union organizer for the Teamsters. Ciaro was Jimmy Hoffa 's right-hand man, and he was deeply involved with union corruption; Ciaro and Hoffa were both murdered at the roadside diner in Bloomfield Township, Michigan in July 1975.
In 1935, Hoffa boards a parked truck where he meets driver Bobby Ciaro. 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".
DeVito himself plays Jimmy’s fictional lieutenant Bobby Ciaro, recruited from a loading dock in 1935 and inseparable from his boss ever since. Hoffa was released a year after Oliver Stone’s JFK and within weeks of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, a trio of “would-be interventions” into the cultural chat, per Sight & Sound at the time.
With Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh. The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate and mysteriously disappears in 1975.
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Dec 25, 1992 · Though the film opens in the 1970s, with the union leader and close (albeit fictional) associate Bobby Ciaro (DeVito) waiting for a meeting in a restaurant parking lot, the story soon shifts into...
Dec 25, 1992 · The movie is directed by Danny DeVito, who also plays the key role of Bobby Ciaro, a trucker who Hoffa meets on the road. Bobby is afraid to join the Teamsters. He could lose his job just by talking to this guy.
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Dec 25, 1992 · A nervous Bobby reminisces about the day he met his friend: In the 1930s, Bobby, a truck driver, meets Hoffa, who encourages him to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union serving the interests of blue-collar workers.
