Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Billy Bathgate
1991
**
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill

In this stiff and slow-paced gangster film a teenage boy joins Dutch Schultz's mob organisation. Dustin Hoffman is good as the crime boss, otherwise there's very little to recommend. Bruce Willis has a funny cameo. Tom Stoppard adapted E.L. Doctorow's novel.