Based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses (which is also, oddly, what the film is titled on-screen) by Charles Brandt, The Irishman has received complaints from critics claiming that the
The film is based on a book by ‎Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses," which details interviews and confessions that Sheeran once reportedly made to Brandt before he died. Scorsese and De
But The Irishman is merely based on Sheeran’s account of what happened leading up to Hoffa’s disappearance and with the vanishing itself—a “laughable” story that found zero merit with a
The True Story of ‘The Irishman’: I Heard You Paint Tangled Tales The movie hits Netflix on Wednesday. Here’s a guide to who’s who, which events are real and whether to believe its claim about The true story behind ‘The Irishman’: What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa By Michael Kaplan , Lauren Steussy and Nadine DeNinno Published Jan. 4, 2020 Updated Jan. 4, 2020, 4:38 p.m. ET

One of Frank’s first-seen kills in The Irishman is an older gangster named Whispers (played by Paul Herman), and it’s based on a true event, in which Frank was almost trapped in a retaliation

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