Billy Bathgate (1991)

Directed by

Robert Benton

Genre

drama film, crime film, gangster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 242 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy gets drawn into the dangerous world of a 1930s gangster. He rises through the ranks of the mob while trying to survive the violent fallout of his boss's conflicts.

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What happens

Billy Bathgate is a 1991 American gangster film directed by Robert Benton, starring Loren Dean as the title character and Dustin Hoffman as real-life gangster Dutch Schultz. The film co-stars Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi and Bruce Willis. Although Billy is a fictional character, at least four of the other characters in the film are real people. The screenplay was adapted by British writer Tom Stoppard from E.L. Doctorow's 1989 novel of the same name. Doctorow distanced himself from the film for the extensive deviations from the book. It received negative reviews and was a box-office bomb, only grossing $15.5 million against its $48 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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