Dustin Hoffman Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University, when he was 21. "It was a great experience for me," he said. "All my life I had wanted to get inside a prison or a mental hospital. . . . I wanted to get inside where behavior, human behavior, was so exposed. All the things the rest of us were feeling and stopping up were coming out of these people." He used that experience to help him develop the character of Raymond Babbitt, a high-functioning autistic savant, yet a person who critic David Denby described as "a strangely shuttered genius." Hoffman created certain
Billy Bathgate (film) of 38% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 24 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. The movie debuted at No. 4 and underperformed against its $48 million budget. The film received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (Nicole Kidman). Billy Bathgate (film) Billy Bathgate is a 1991 American gangster film directed by Robert Benton, starring Loren Dean as the title character and Dustin Hoffman as real-life gangster Dutch Schultz. The film co-stars Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi, and Bruce