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The Irishman

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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The disappearance of union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished without a trace in 1975, has never been explained. But that doesn't deter director Martin Scorsese from solving the mystery in "The Irishman" (Netflix), an epic historical drama.
 
Scorsese and screenwriter Steve Zaillain work off of Charles Brandt's 2004 nonfiction book, "I Heard You Paint Houses," based on the life of Frank Sheeran (1920-2003), a labor union official and erstwhile gangster whom Hoffa befriended. "Painting houses" is mob parlance for murder; the "paint" that mobsters use is the blood that splatters when a victim is pumped with bullets.