The Cotton Club
Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night.
Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit ...
Crime, Drama
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1984
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Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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Details
Runtime:
130 min
Release date:
14 Dec 1984
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Italian
Budget:
$58,000,000
Revenue:
$25,928,721
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 1 win & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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,
13 Mar 2009
fresh:
It was the most assured film Coppola had made in a decade, full of casual wit and visual invention.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
11 Dec 2007
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,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
The narrative is a mess despite the simplistic twinning of tales.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006