When his wife pressures him to have another child, Tom Black retreats from his marriage and takes a stab at living alone. But in light of his crumbling personal life and a mountain of on-the-job problems, what he had before seems halfway decent.
An aging former child star tries to capture the wealth that has always eluded him by latching on to a lucky man while both have their eye on the same girl of their dreams.
História da vida de Jimmy Hoffa (Jack Nicholson), um poderoso líder sindical, que desapareceu misteriosamente, sem nunca ter sido encontrado. Mostra sua luta para construir um sindicato trabalhista, seu envolvimento com a máfia e o tempo que passou na prisão. Personagens reais se misturam com fictícios.