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The Cotton Club
1984
Beautiful music and striking dance performances are the highlight of Francis Ford Coppola's musical/mobster flick centered around the legendary Harlem nightclub. The club's black dancers and musicians entertain the exclusively white audience made up of gangsters and Hollywood stars. Local boy Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) saves .. Read more
| Starring | Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Bob Hoskins, Lonette McKee |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Cotton Club
Beautiful music and striking dance performances are the highlight of Francis Ford Coppola's musical/mobster flick centered around the legendary Harlem nightclub. The club's black dancers and musicians entertain the exclusively white audience made up of gangsters and Hollywood stars. Local boy Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) saves the life of crime boss Dutch Schultz (James Remar) and reluctantly enters the world of racketeering. Talented tap dancer Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines) struggles to get ahead in the segregated world of 1920s nightlife. Authentic costuming and sets help make THE COTTON CLUB a stylistic homage to the Jazz Age and gangster films of old.
| Starring | Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Bob Hoskins, Lonette McKee, James Remar, Diane Lane, Allen Garfield, Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Grey, Fred Gwynne, Lisa Jane Persky, Gwen Verdon, Tom Waits, Julian Beck, Laurence Fishburne, Nico |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Studio | OPTIMUM |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 3 mins |
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| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 08 Sep 2003 Production year: 1984 |
| Format | DVD |
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Richard Gere gets a chance to reveal his cornet-playing abilities in this tale of music and the Mob in toe-tappin' 1920s Harlem. Sadly, Gere's musical talents far outshine his performance, which seems almost trance-like in places, while Diane Lane often appears to be thoroughly bored in her role as Dutch Schultz's moll. The blame must lie with director Francis Coppola, who, in expending his energy on visual clout and showbiz set pieces (some of which are fabulous), under-directs his actors and forgets about the plot. Nevertheless, Bob Hoskins as the club owner and Fred Gwynne as his henchman certainly make their mark, while the Duke Ellington soundtrack is sheer bliss.
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A lumpy vehicle, eventually costing fifty million dollars, for some of the talents who made The Godfather ten years earlier. Despite a few effective moments, a prime example of the careless extravagance which all but killed the film business.
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Gere, Gangsters and tap-dancing
This semi-musical sees Gere as a musician in 20s America who gets mixed up with gangsters when he falls for the wrong woman. There's a great subplot with a pair of tap-dancing brothers, but ultimately this film doesn't seem to know what it really wants to do. Definitely worth seeing if you like musicals of the type where people don't just spontaneouly break into song, or if you liked Chicago, but only really for the Gere factor.
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Gere, Gangsters and tap-dancing
This semi-musical sees Gere as a musician in 20s America who gets mixed up with gangsters when he falls for the wrong woman. There's a great subplot with a pair of tap-dancing brothers, but ultimately this film doesn't seem to know what it really wants to do. Definitely worth seeing if you like musicals of the type where people don't just spontaneouly break into song, or if you liked Chicago, but only really for the Gere factor.
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Nights in Rodanthe
- 09 Oct 2008
Richard Gere and Diane Lane – together at last for the third time! And they still have next to no chemistry. They first crossed body fluids in Francis Coppola’s underrated The Cotton Club nearly a quarter of a century ago. He was 34. She was 18. Neither of them had enough pull to make the movie a hit. Cut to 2002. Adrian Lyne casts them as a married couple and this time moviegoers are all for it. But it was Lane’s dalliance with Olivier Martinez that sold Unfaithful, while... Read more
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The Cotton Club
Beautiful music and striking dance performances are the highlight of Francis Ford Coppola's musical/mobster flick centered around the legendary Harlem nightclub. The club's black dancers and musicians entertain the exclusively white audience made up of gangsters and Hollywood stars. Local boy Dixie ...
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