Filming Locations
Although it chronicles Hoffa's early years in Michigan to his leadership in New York City and Washington, D.C. and his death in a Detroit suburb, almost all of the film was shot in and around Pittsburgh with the city's landmarks (such as Gateway Center in the Idlewild Airport police pullover scene, and the Mellon Institute depicting government buildings) serving as backdrops for the various locales in the film. The diner scenes were shot at an actual diner that was built then destroyed on Rt. 72 in Hampshire, Illinois.
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