Rotten
Given its garish production history, one rather expected The Cotton Club to sing with hot-jazz desperation. Instead, we get the mediocre craftsmanship of a pit band in Vegas.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
The Cotton Club
Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night.
1984 · 2h 10m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Overview
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Director and cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Director
- Richard Gere as Dixie Dwyer
- Diane Lane as Vera Cicero
- Gregory Hines as Delbert 'Sandman' Williams
- Bob Hoskins as Owney Madden
- James Remar as Dutch Schulz
- Nicolas Cage as Vincent Dwyer
- Lonette McKee as Lila Rose Oliver
- Allen Garfield Cast
- Fred Gwynne Cast
- Gwen Verdon Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It was the most assured film Coppola had made in a decade, full of casual wit and visual invention.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Whatever it took to do it, Coppola has extracted a very special film out of the checkered history of this project.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The narrative is a mess despite the simplistic twinning of tales.
Time Out
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