Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate (1991)

Timing: 1:46 (106 min)

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Release date

1991-11-01

Country

United States

Production

Touchstone Pictures

Genre

Crime

Budget

$48 000 000

Revenue

$15 565 363

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Director

Robert Benton

Actors

Loren Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Steven Hill, Billy Jaye, John Costelloe, Timothy Jerome
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Scenario

Producer

Robert F. Colesberry, Arlene Donovan

Operator

Néstor Almendros

Composer

Mark Isham

Artist

Audition

Editing

Alan Heim, David Ray, Robert M. Reitano
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• Due to numerous deviations of the script from the original text by Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (1931-2015), the author of the novel on which Robert Benton based this film, he later refused to consider himself in any way involved in its creation.
• It is known that Dustin Hoffman and director Robert Benton constantly argued and disagreed with each other. It reached the point where Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Disney, had to come to the set at one point to intervene in another dispute.
• Disagreements between Dustin Hoffman and Robert Benton led to filming delays and reshoots; an alternative ending to the film was even shot, but ultimately the original ending was retained. The total production cost soared to $40 million.
• At the time, Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg chose to produce this film over Barry Levinson's 'Bugsy' (1991), considering the latter, costing $40 million, to be too expensive. This film ultimately cost $50 million (and failed at the American box office).
• Due to numerous deviations of the script from the original text, the author of the novel, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, subsequently refused to consider himself involved in the creation of the film.
• Dustin Hoffman and director Robert Benton constantly argued. It got to the point where Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Disney, had to come to the set at one point to intervene in another argument.
• The disputes between Dustin Hoffman and Robert Benton led to delays and reshoots; an alternative ending was even filmed, but it was then decided to keep the original ending.
• Then-Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg chose to produce this film instead of Barry Levinson's 'Bugsy' (1991), considering the latter, costing $40 million, too expensive. This film ultimately cost $48 million (and flopped at the American box office).
• Disney's then-president Jeffrey Katzenberg chose to produce this film rather than Barry Levinson's "Bugsy" (1991), considering the latter, costing $40 million, too expensive. This film ultimately cost $48 million (and flopped at the American box office).