

Bugsy
Glamour was the disguise.
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $30M
- Box office
- $49.1M
- Language
- English
- hotel
- casino
- hitman
- psychopath
- biography
- romance
- money
- mafia
- hollywood
- las vegas
- hoodlum
- 1940s
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR10 Dec 1991
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1820 Mar 1992
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1513 Mar 1992
FranceFR
- TheatricalU18 Mar 1992
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1612 Mar 1992
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1312 Mar 1992
JapanJP
- Theatrical22 Feb 1992
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1627 Mar 1992
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1814 Mar 1992
SpainES
- Theatrical1812 Mar 1992
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Bugsy was released on 10 December 1991.
Audience reviews
3- J6.5/10
John Chard
5/18/2014
Benjamin Siegel. Bugsy is directed by Barry Levinson and written by James Toback. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould and Joe Mantegna. Music is by Ennio Morricone and cinematography by Allen Daviau. Film is a biography adaptation of Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, a notorious American mobster who rose to prominence in the 30s and 40s. Barry Levinson’s epic film didn’t tur…
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
I just reviewed Reds, a movie where they managed to make John Reed boring and now I am reviewing Bugsy... a movie where they manage to make Bugsy Siegel boring. And honestly, like with Reds, Bugsy helped Luciano rise to power in what is one of the most interesting mafia stories in American history... which you really don't see here. In fact, it's hardly even mentioned. But... after Bugsy did that he built Vegas…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
4/2/2026
This is based, very loosely, on the real-life shenanigans of Benjamin Siegel - aka “Bugsy” (Warren Beatty) as he evolves from small time, womanising, brute to aspiring property developer in an embryonic Las Vegas just as the Hoover Dam was coming on-stream with copious amounts of cheap electricity. Along the way, he ditches his wife and children as he falls hook, line and sinker for would-be actress Virginia Hill (An…
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