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Billy Bathgate (1991)
★ 5.8 · 243 ratings on TMDB
In 1935, a New York kid was looking for a hero. He found Dutch Schultz.
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
DirectorRobert Benton
GenresCrime
The emergence reading
Billy Bathgate keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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