content: It's important in watching this movie to ignore the fact that Danny DiVito plays a gangster. ...Any gangster, whether a real one or a Hollywood gangster, would double-over with laughter were they to see a fellow gangster not just as *short* as Danny DiVito but as comically-built as Danny DiVito.There's a scene where Danny DiVito roughs up a nightclub owner -- twice his size. ... Is this what's meant by the audience "suspending its belief"?Danny DiVito is about as scary as a gangster as my Aunt Tillie is wearing a Dracula mask.As for the movie, Danny and Company take a decidedly sympathetic attitude toward Jimmy Hoffa. Never mind the sort of fellow James R. was: HE HAD POWER! ... And he was fairly short.What more could our boy Danny want in a hero?