I Heard you Paint Houses

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2019)

This is the biopic of Frank Sheeren (Robert De Niro) the last man standing. Frank starts off as a Truck Driver who endears himself to the Bufalino family in Philadelphia. He does jobs for them, like "paint houses" a code phrase for killing people. Frank later becomes the right hand man of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).
The story is told as a double flashback and it works very well. The makeup was exceptional as it showed both De Niro and Joe Pesci in three to four stages of their life. And yes we do get to see who kills Jimmy Hoffa and why. In this film Hoffa was preventing loans to the mob from the pension fund for building casinos in Vegas and in was rumored he was going to call in the loans plus the interest owed.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.