In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Acting
Hoffman's Schultz: volcanic, pathetic, impossible to look away from.
Production
Depression-era New York built like a stage set for moral collapse.
Director
Robert Benton
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
Lulu
Timothy Jerome
Dixie Davis
Mike Starr
Julie Martin
Robert F. Colesberry
Jack Kelly
Stephen Joyce
Mr. Hines
Frances Conroy
Mary Behan
Moira Kelly
Becky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hoffman spent weeks studying actual recordings of Dutch Schultz's paranoid, rambling deathbed monologue to nail the cadence.
A notorious flop that killed the 'prestige gangster' trend until Scorsese resurrected it four years later with Casino.
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