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1984 • 2h 10min • R • Crime, Drama

The Cotton Club

"Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night."

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

IMDb 6.6

RT 76%

MC 68

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Writers

William Kennedy

Francis Ford Coppola

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Richard Gere

Richard 'Dixie' Dwyer

Gregory Hines

Delbert 'Sandman' Williams

Diane Lane

Vera Cicero

Lonette McKee

Lila Rose Oliver

Bob Hoskins

Owney Madden

James Remar

Dutch Schultz

Nicolas Cage

Vincent Dwyer

Allen Garfield

Otto 'Abbadabba' Berman

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