Billy 'Bathgate' Behan is a poor teenager in the 1920s that one day manages to capture the attention of Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman) and enters his gang. He first sees two gruesome murders: first trusted Bo Weinberg (Bruce Willis) and Jules Martin, but Billy has a great opinion of Schultz and even considers him like a father. When Schultz has a trial for tax evasion, Billy is assigned to protect the former mistress of Weinberg, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman) but ends up falling for her and even saves her calling her real husband and taking her home, and when Billy risks his death after Schultz and all his men die in a shootout, he is saved by none other than Lucky Luciano (Stanley Tucci).
I was curious about this movie for years because of the cast and the subject, and while I didn't found it excellent I still liked it. The cast is full of many known faces (Hoffman, Willis, Kidman, Tucci, Mike Starr, Steve Buscemi, Frances Conroy) and they all do a nice job, the 1920s style is captured well and the movie never fails to entertain. Need to say more? Nah.
I was curious about this movie for years because of the cast and the subject, and while I didn't found it excellent I still liked it. The cast is full of many known faces (Hoffman, Willis, Kidman, Tucci, Mike Starr, Steve Buscemi, Frances Conroy) and they all do a nice job, the 1920s style is captured well and the movie never fails to entertain. Need to say more? Nah.