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The Cotton Club (1984) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 10, 2001
Budget $47,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 7 minutes
Country USA
Studio Orion, Zoetrope Studios
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Other Titles
• The Cotton Club
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Genre: Crime, Musical, Gangsters, Period Piece, Love Triangle, Hollywood
Tagline: Where crime lords rub elbows with the rich and famous!
Plot: It’s the height of the 1920s Jazz Age and Harlem’s famous Cotton Club is the home to both talented performers and gangster molls. Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) is a cornet player who unexpectedly saves the life of mobster Dutch Schultz (James Remar). When Schultz takes Dixie under his wing, Dutch’s girlfriend Vera Cicero (Diane Lane) and Dixie become dangerously entangled. Meanwhile, the performers at Owney Madden’s (Bob Hoskins) club, led by Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines) and his brother Clay (played by real-life brother Maurice Hines), balance their lives as stars on the stage with the real-life discrimination of being black. Sandman falls for ambitious light-skinned chanteuse Lila (Lonette McKee) while Dixie moves to Hollywood to become a movie star. The supporting cast is a colorful mix, including musician Tom Waits as club manager Irving Stark; Fred Gwynne (aka Herman Munster) as Madden’s sidekick, Frenchy; Broadway legend Gwen Verdon as Dixie’s mom, Tish; Andy Warhol star Joe Dallesandro as Charles "Lucky" Luciano; and founder of New York’s Living Theater, Julian Beck, as the sinister Sol Weinstein.
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 | Diane Lane
The Perfect Storm, Unfaithful, Judge Dredd |
 | Gregory Hines
History of the World: Part I, Renaissance Man, The Muppets Take Manhattan |
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 | Bob Hoskins
Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Enemy at the Gates |
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John Barry
Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger, Moonraker |
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