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Plot: In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
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	5.9/10 Votes: 12,208
	36% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 172 Popularity: 9.841 | TMDB

Reviews:

lackluster lead in bland character
It’s 1935 NYC. Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman) has Bo Weinberg (Bruce Willis) tied up. The movie flashes back to hustler Billy Bathgate (Loren Dean) on the streets. He ingratiates himself into Dutch’s grace with his timely audacity. Dutch is a lead gangster. Otto Berman (Steven Hill) is his second in-command. Bo is his master fixer who can be trusted to do anything. Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman) is Bo’s married girlfriend. Dutch is battling another gang as he grows suspicious of Bo. After Dutch kills Bo, he takes Drew as his. He has a trial in upstate New York and tries to win over the locals with his generosity.

There is something off-putting about Loren Dean portrayal of Billy Bathgate. He’s a wide-eyed bland puppy who’s always hanging around and listening. He lacks the needed intensity to lead a movie that has Dustin Hoffman acting up a storm. I imagine a modern version could be played by Eddie Redmayne who would give this role much needed energy. With Kidman bringing all of her damaged sexuality, Loren Dean brings the heat of a 12 year old boy. It’s partly the character but mostly it’s left on Loren’s doorstep. How much of it is director Robert Benton’s doing is hard to tell. This movie should be a lot better with so many great supporting actors involved.

Like a ‘Godfather’ Movie Centered on Tom Hagen
If there is one thing that strikes you about Billy it is that he is not a killer. He likes the money and the sharp suits and the girls and the party life of being mobbed up. But he doesn’t have it in him to look someone in the eye and pull the trigger (Notice how it never occurred to Dutch Schultz to ask Billy to kill Drew. Or even let him in on the plan). Billy is not Henry Hill.

Otto Berman, Schultz’s money man, the ‘consigliere’, in the film immediately recognizes that about Billy and takes him under his wing in a mentoring way. He is constantly risking Schultz’s psychotic wrath by protecting Billy, telling him more than Schultz means him to know. In the end he saves Billy’s life by getting him out of that steak house when he knows that everyone has turned against them and they are doomed.

This film denies the viewer the vicarious thrill of reveling in mob movie violence on several counts. One is that Billy is a horrified onlooker to Schultz’s violence. Never an active participant. The second is that Schultz’s violence is always self-defeating. Prohibition is over and the Jewish Schultz has been reduced to whatever scraps Luciano and the Five Families deign to leave him (protection rackets and the Harlem numbers rackets). He is on the way down. It sure looks as if Luciano is perfectly happy to toss prosecutor Dewey a bone to make him happy and that bone will be Schultz. In the end Schultz’s political protection abandons him notwithstanding the offer of a $17,000 bribe (multiply times 20. $340,000. That’s a lot of money. After all, the $50 Berman lent Billy covered a new suit, black leather shoes, a new dress for Becky, a present for his Mom, and a night on the town credible enough to earn rooftop sex with Becky. Around a thousand.). And furthermore, the presence of Drew. She’s no ‘moll’. She is a bored, slumming wife and daughter of old money power and privilege. It is the people in her world who really pull the strings, who make phone calls, who have state troopers as personal bodyguards. Schultz is just a cheap hood, not even good enough to meet her friends as Billy is.

The ending for Billy is best. He is out of a world where he never belonged. He has a nice nest egg. And he will doubtless have the undying gratitude and friendship and maybe patronage of Drew and her powerful family.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 48000000
Revenue 15565363
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Robert Benton
Writer E.L. Doctorow, Tom Stoppard
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean
Country N/A
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (color), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 500T 5296)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)