Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate is based on E.L. Doctorow's historical novel about New York in the Thirties. Doctorow also authored Ragtime and while this film isn't as gaudy and expensive as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate is an accurate recreation of the times of post... Full review

Mark Isham, of Windham Hill fame, has written a powerful, sweeping and moving score to accompany Robert Benton's gangster show, "Billy Bathgate", which unfortunately falls well short of that description. Although Benton tries hard, along with Dustin Hoffman, Loren Dean and... Full review

It's kind of shocking to see less than 20 reviews (as of March, 2006) for a movie that stars Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman and also has Bruce Willis and Loren Dean. This story of gangster "Dutch" Schultz is told, like... Full review

This film had some problems, but is still underrated. Hoffman is intense and frightening as Dutch Schultz and I can't believe he wasn't nominated for this. The lead kid, Loren Dean, simply has no acting talent whatsoever. Nicole Kidman is fetching... Full review

Through a chance meeting in the street, our hero Billy Bathgate (Loren Dean) encounters and impresses the notorious 1930's gangster and bootlegger Dutch Schultz and even becomes his protégé. Gangster films, like westerns, have so many cinematic plus points built in... Full review

In a time when gangster films were becoming witty, stylish, and bloody (ie, Reservoir Dogs), a film like Billy Bathgate was ill timed. I've read the comments index here, and it seems as if everyone missed the point entirely. Several people... Full review

Some review comments about it having an "abrupt ending" were peculiar since the ending was HISTORICAL. The chop house shooting happened. The characters could have been drawn better, much better, especially regarding motivations. Perhaps this is why people were left unsatisfied... Full review

This is one of my favorite gangster movies. Perhaps because it is so uniquely different from other successful films of this genre, it has been derided as a failure. Step back from the likes of The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Sopranos, and... Full review

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From Amazon : The oily allure of underground power is compelling. During the heyday of New York's mob scene, it was more than a mysterious, dynamic draw, it was a ticket out of poverty and stepping stone to notoriety. ... Full Article

Synopsis: E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed novel forms the basis of BILLY BATHGATE, which stars Loren Dean as the title character. In the New York of 1935, the naive Bronx-born teenager wangles his way into the... ... Full Article

In this film version of E. L. Doctorow 's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz ( Dustin Hoffman ). ... Full Article

Here is the story of a young man so bland and colorless that even becoming the protege of a gangster doesn't make him interesting. Billy Bathgate, who takes his name from the street where he was born, apprentices himself body... ... Full Article