Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate (1991)

In 1935, a New York kid was looking for a hero. He found Dutch Schultz.

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Date of release
1991-11-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (252)
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
Crime
Director
Robert Benton

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Billy Bathgate
  • Filmed in: New York City, New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina

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.

Production

The film was shot in Hamlet, North Carolina, and Saratoga Springs, New York.

In a 1993 interview, Steve Buscemi said of the production: "Dustin (Hoffman) liked to rehearse on camera, so we’d end up doing a lot of takes. Before we’d even do the take, we might discuss the scene for a long time. The crew would be waiting around outside and we wouldn’t even be rehearsing the scene, just talking about it."

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