Cotton Club, The  /  DVD-Video
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)  /  Production Year: 1984  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 1 Customer Comments Suggestions 1 Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 3 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis "Audacious, buoyant andibreathtaking!" -Los Angeles Times Oscar® winners Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a "mesmerizing" (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. Nominated for three Oscars®, The Cotton Club is a "genuine vision" (Newsweek) of the golden age of jazz you won't soon forget! 1928, New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz, lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the center of it all is Harlem's Cotton Club. Playing on stage is cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Gere), who dreams of the big time, but he's too mixed up with the club's owner (Hoskins) -- and his sexy moll (Lane) -- to get anywhere fast. Add the frustration of tap sensation Sandman Williams (Hines), who can't touch his girl, the lovely lounge singer Lea Rose Oliver (Lonette McKee), and you've got a short fuse ready to go. As tensions rise, so do tempers, and the legendary nightclub becomes a pressure cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs that blows the lid off one of the most shocking showdowns ever staged. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Richard Gere  • Gregory Hines  • Diane Lane  • Lonette McKee  • Fred Gwynne  • Nicolas Cage  • Bob Hoskins  • James Remar  • Allen Garfield Writers:  • Francis Ford Coppola  • William Kennedy Producers:  • Robert Evans Directors:  • Francis Ford Coppola Product Information Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: Spanish, French Studio: MGM / UA Production Year: 1984 Release Date: 7/10/2001 Length: 129 mins Rating: R Chapters: 16 Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: 1002205 UPC Code: 027616864369 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Music, Drama, Mobsters & The Mafia Bargains: Under $11 Studios: MGM / UA Customers who bought this Title also bought Thirteen Days  DVD-Video Cutter's Way  DVD-Video Family Man, The: Collector's Edition  DVD-Video Monkeybone  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 3 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review Come to the club - 3 out of 5  (7/30/2001) As it sometimes happens, the story behind the making of COTTON CLUB is more turbulent than the actual film itself. The movie isn't one of the best examples of great cinema about the twenties, but it still succeeded as a mid level hit when it first premiered. The stories of Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere), Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines) and their frustrated attempts at romance in the time are interesting enough, but the whole movie suffers from a sense of being disjointed. It seems final   more >> Customer Review Under-rated sleeper? - 3 out of 5  (5/23/2005) I'm not quite sure why the reviews of this film border on pans. The story is interesting, with well-fleshed characters and characterizations. The cuts between the stage production and "real world" at the end are very well done and makes a nice commentary on the blurring of reality and fantasy presented by movies. Richard Gere performs the cornet solos (and quite competently, thank you very much), a nice touch. The production numbers makes this by far my favorite musical (the best Cab Call   more >>