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Richard Gere Richard Gere
Dixie Dwyer
Gregory Hines Gregory Hines
Sandman Williams
Diane Lane Diane Lane
Vera Cicero
Lonette McKee Lonette McKee
Lila Rose Oliver
Bob Hoskins Bob Hoskins
Owney Madden
James Remar James Remar
Dutch Schultz
Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage
Vincent Dwyer
Allen Garfield Allen Garfield
Abbadabba Berman


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William Kennedy William Kennedy
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An average movie

7 years, 7 months ago at Sep 6 14:03
To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and I should probably re-watch it at some point. The tricky thing with Francis Ford Coppola is that even though his movies from the 80โ€™s were not really so bad, they never reached the level of the masterpieces he made in th 70โ€™s ('Apocalypse Now', 'The Godfather: Part II', 'The Conversation', 'The Godfather') and he nowadays, the g... read more
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The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
Release date: 14 December 1984
UPC: 027616864369
Tags: Drama (7), Music (5), Gangster (5), 1984 (5), Jazz (4), Crime (4), (3), Musical (3), Racism (3), 1980s (3), Harlem (2), Nicolas Cage (2), Club (1), Orion Pictures (1), HQ (1), Night Club (1), 03 (1), Box Office Flop (1), *saipal (1), NYC (1)
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