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Billy Bathgate is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Benton released in USA on 1 november 1991 with Dustin Hoffman
Billy Bathgate (1991)
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Add to a movie listBilly Bathgate is a 1991 American gangster film directed by Robert Benton, starring Loren Dean as the titular 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, most of the other characters in the film represent real people from 1930s New York. The screenplay was adapted by British writer Tom Stoppard from E.L. Doctorow's novel of the same name. However, Doctorow distanced himself from the film for the extensive deviations from the book.
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Billy Behan is a poor teenage boy from the Bronx. One day he catches the attention of gangster Dutch Schultz. Changing his last name to Bathgate, after a local street, he goes to work for Schultz's organization, serving mostly as a gopher for Schultz. Billy is present when Schultz murders his former partner Bo Weinberg, who Schultz believes betrayed him. Schultz then begins a relationship with Weinberg's beautiful, married, girlfriend, Drew Preston.Actors
Dustin Hoffman
(Dutch Schultz)
Nicole Kidman
(Drew Preston)
Steven Hill
(Otto Berman)
Loren Dean
(Billy Bathgate)
Bruce Willis
(Bo Weinberg)
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