Billy Bathgate (film)

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Billy Bathgate

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Directed by Robert Benton
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Tom Stoppard
Starring Dustin Hoffman
Nicole Kidman
Loren Dean
Steven Hill
Steve Buscemi
Bruce Willis
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography Néstor Almendros
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) 1991
Running time 106 mins.
Language English
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Billy Bathgate is a 1991 film starring Dustin Hoffman as a young Dutch Schultz, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi, and Bruce Willis. It is based on the novel 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.[citation needed]

It was filmed in Hamlet, NC and the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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