Martin Scorsese's gangland tale opens in select theaters Friday before heading to Netflix. Here's a primer on the storylines around the film.
Charles Brandt that chronicles the life of Sheeran, an International Brotherhood of Teamsters official who said he worked as a contract killer for the Bufalino crime family in the Philadelphia area. Sheeran, who died in 2003, cast himself as the Forrest Gump of the 1970s Northeastern crime circuit, purportedly responsible for the killings of Hoffa, New York gangster
and other underworld tough guys. Hoffa's unsolved death, most notably, has vexed true-crime aficionados for decades.worked to get a film adaptation off the ground for more than 15 years, present Sheeran's version of 20th century history, depicting the stoic World War II veteran as having carried out a series of slayings from the 1950s through the early 1980s. The film, principally told in slow-burning flashbacks and punctuated by mournful voice-over by De Niro, even winks at the possibility that Mafia figures were tied to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
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