Billy Bathgate is a
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directed by
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, and starring
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as the titular character and
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as
Dutch SchultzDutch Schultz , was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket....
. The film co-stars
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,
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,
Steve BuscemiSteven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi is an American actor, writer and film director.-Early life:Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Dorothy, who worked as a hostess at Howard Johnson's, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran. Buscemi's father was Italian...
, and
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. It is based on the
novel of the same nameBilly Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a...
by E.L. Doctorow. Doctorow has distanced himself from the film for the extensive manner in which it deviates from the book in style and content.
Plot
Billy Bathgate is a youngster in the 1930s Bronx. After gangster Dutch Schultz takes him under his wing, Billy begins to work his way up the ranks of the organization.
Production
The film was filmed in Hamlet, NC and the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, NY.
In an episode of VH1's
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, Jamie Walters claimed he was up for a part in Billy Bathgate and even went to Dustin Hoffman's house to audition but ultimately did not get the part.
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor who has had an active career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He first drew critical praise for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakout movie role as Ben...
- Arthur "Dutch" SchultzDutch Schultz , was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging alcohol and the numbers racket....
- Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer and humanitarian. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honour. In 2006, she was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry.Kidman's...
- Drew Preston
- Loren Dean
Loren Dean Jovicic is an American actor. He has appeared in live theatre, but is primarily known for his films.-Early life:...
- Billy Bathgate
- Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis , better known as Bruce Willis, is an American actor and producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard...
- Bo Weinberg
- Steven Hill
Steven Hill is an American film and television actor. His two best known roles were District Attorney Adam Schiff on the NBC TV drama series Law & Order, whom he portrayed for ten seasons , and Dan Briggs, the original team leader of the Impossible Missions Force on CBS's television series...
- Otto BermanOtto Biederman, known as Otto "Abbadabba" Berman , was an accountant for American organized crime. He is known for coining the phrase "Nothing personal, it's just business."...
- Stanley Tucci
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- Lucky LucianoCharles "Lucky" Luciano was a Sicilian-born American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family...
- Mike Starr
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- Julie Martin
- Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent "Steve" Buscemi is an American actor, writer and film director.-Early life:Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Dorothy, who worked as a hostess at Howard Johnson's, and John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran. Buscemi's father was Italian...
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Awards and nominations
The film received one Golden Globe nomination;
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (Nicole Kidman
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