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The Cotton Club (1984)

The Cotton Club (1984)

R 127 minutes EN Crime , Drama
It was the jazz age. It was an era of elegance and violence. The action was gambling. The stakes were life and death.
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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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
Fred Gwynne
Frenchy Demange
Gwen Verdon
Tish Dwyer
Lisa Jane Persky
Frances Flegenheimer
Maurice Hines
Clay Williams

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Director of Photography
Production Design
Art Direction
Set Decoration
Set Decoration
Costume Design
Original Music Composer
Production companies: Totally Independent, PSO, American Zoetrope, Robert Evans Company
Production countries: United States of America
Budget: $58,000,000
Revenue: $25,928,721

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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