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I love old gangster movies and I rate this one as one of the best. The crime mobs of the teens, twenties and thirties were all Jews. They were in every major city of the U.S. This movie deals with the New York City mob of Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman) and his sidekick Bo Weinberg (Bruce Willis). Nicole Kiddman plays the gangster gal. This isn't a new movie, 1991, I think. The best of period correct settings, clothing, furnishings, etc. give the viewer a step back into the past of a young United States. Highly recommended.
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Billy BathgateReview created: 08/02/06
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This is a good movie with an all star cast, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, and of course my favorite Bruce Willis. If you like gangster type movies then you will like this one. The acting is good and the sets are also good. And of course you can't go wrong with this movie with a nude scene by Nicole Kidman. Check it out sometime.
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Think of it as a period doomed romance, not as a gangsta flickReview created: 08/06/02
by: Stephen_Murray-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies
Pros:
photography, locations, actors
photography, locations, actors
Cons:
not taut despite living at the mercy of a human volcano
not taut despite living at the mercy of a human volcano
A lot of talent went into this movie that found little critical or popular approval in 1991. It was based on E. L. Doctorow's best-selling, award-winning (PEN-Faulkner) and absorbing 1990 novel of the same name about a Bronx boy who insinuates himself into the "Dutch" Schultz gang as it was about to be supplanted by more predictable--if no less violent--syndicate of "Lucky" Luciano. Tom Stoppard, the witty author of such brilliant plays as "Arcadia" and "Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and coauthor of the "Shakespeare in Love" screenplay (as well as of one of my favorite obscure movies .
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Dutch Schultz, Gangster ExtraordinaireReview created: 07/30/00
by: George_Chabot-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies
Pros:
Hoffman, Buscemi, Photography,
Hoffman, Buscemi, Photography,
Cons:
Kidman, Dean, screenplay
Kidman, Dean, screenplay
Billy Bathgate (1991) Back in the 1920s-30s New York was divided into geographic segments as far as organized crime was concerned. The Italians, Sicilians really, controlled the liquor and vice pretty much over the Italian areas, the Jewish gangs under Dutch Schultz, controlled Harlem. The Irish, under Legs Diamond controlled another area. That is until Lucky Luciano had the bright idea of a nationwide crime syndicate, run from New York, and by the way, controlled by him. Up to this point, Dutch Schultz and Legs Diamond had run pretty much roughshod over their fiefdoms and occasionally...
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Missus Preston, are you trying to seduce me?Review created: 07/21/01
by: dancingpotato -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis and Steve Buscemi; historically accurate.
Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis and Steve Buscemi; historically accurate.
Cons:
Loren Dean, script, characters, bad tacked-on romance.
Loren Dean, script, characters, bad tacked-on romance.
Gangster movies are probably my favorite sub-subgenre. The first one I saw was Goodfellas, then I read The Godfather, then I saw a couple more movies, etc. Most of these are the stories of made-up gangsters, or pale copies of actual gangsters. The movies that usually take real gangsters are adapted for TV (Lansky) or pretty lame action drivel (Mobsters). Mind you, there are a couple of reality-based gangster movies worth it out there, one of them being Billy Bathgate. Billy (Loren Dean) is your average Brooklyn kid, perhaps old enough to be out of school, perhaps poor enough to never have...
Review ID: 10000000000553156
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