Name: Billy Bathgate
Genre: Crime
Released: 1991
Rating: 42.16666666666667
Cast: Loren Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi

About

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.

DNA

Genres: Gangster Film Biographical Crime
Mood: DarkTenseBroodingUnsettlingGritty
Themes: Coming Of AgeBetrayalPower DynamicsCrime And PunishmentConsequences Of Ambition
Plot: Criminal RivalriesLoyalty And BetrayalMob HierarchyViolent CrimesCriminal UnderworldRise And Fall Of A MobsterApprentice To A Crime BossWitnessing Criminal Activities
Pacing: Building SuspenseModerate
Narrative: FlashbacksComing-Of-Age Structure
Dialog: Witty BanterPoetic Language
Character Types: Anti-HeroMentorInnocent
Time: 1930sGreat Depression Era
Place: New York CityGangland Hangouts
Cinematic Style: First-Person PerspectiveStylized ViolenceNoir Aesthetics
Costume and Set: Period-Accurate CostumesSpeakeasy Sets

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Crew

Directed by:

Néstor Almendros, Robert Benton, Tim Donahue

Produced by:

Robert F. Colesberry, Arlene Donovan, Karen L. Thorson

Composed by:

Mark Isham

Cast

Loren Dean

Billy Bathgate

Dustin Hoffman

Dutch Schultz

Nicole Kidman

Drew Preston

Bruce Willis

Bo Weinberg

Steve Buscemi

Irving

Stanley Tucci

Lucky Luciano

Steven Hill

Otto Berman

John Costelloe

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Timothy Jerome

Dixie Davis

Mike Starr

Julie Martin

Robert F. Colesberry

Jack Kelly

Stephen Joyce

Mr. Hines

Frances Conroy

Mary Behan

Moira Kelly

Becky

Kevin Corrigan

Arnold

Xander Berkeley

Harvey Preston

Katharine Houghton

Charlotte

Jack Mulcahy

Fire Inspector

Kenny Vance

Dutch's Thug

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