| 1 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $35 million. Box office, $29,302,121. |
| 2 | * CaliforniaDoubling: Much of the film was shot in and around Pittsburgh, which is noticeable late in the film (in a scene ostensibly set outside Detroit) when unchanged highway signs to Pittsburgh neighborhoods can be spotted in the background. |
| 3 | * CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/JackNicholson named this as one of his favourite performances. |
| 4 | * RealLifeRelative: Creator/JackNicholson's daughter plays the young nun in the hospital scene where Billy Flynn is dying from his burns. According to Creator/DannyDeVito in the DVDCommentary, Nicholson had asked him to give his daughter a small role. At first, [=DeVito=] suggested she play the hooker in his hotel room in a later scene, drawing the trademark raised eyebrow from Nicholson. Since [=DeVito=] was joking he, of course, relented and cast her as a nun. |
| 5 | * SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Nicholson strongly resembled Hoffa to the point that he needed very little makeup for the role - mainly a fake nose and some false teeth - to portray Hoffa. At one point during filming the real Hoffa's son was brought to tears after visiting the set and seeing Nicholson made up as his father, saying "That's my dad". |
| 6 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 7 | ** Creator/BarryLevinson was the forerunner to direct, but left when Creator/DavidMamet refused to make script changes. Creator/JohnMcTiernan and Creator/OliverStone were also considered. |
| 8 | ** Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/KevinSpacey auditioned to play Jimmy Hoffa. Pacino finally got to play him in ''Film/TheIrishman'', opposite [=De Niro=]. |
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