Watch The Cotton Club (1984) Free Online

Release Date: 1984

Cast: James Remar, Lisa Jane Persky, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Julian Beck, Fred Gwynne, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines, Gwen Verdon, Bill Graham ...MORE

Cast: James Remar, Lisa Jane Persky, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Julian Beck, Fred Gwynne, Diane Venora, Gregory Hines, Gwen Verdon, Bill Graham, Jennifer Grey, Tom Waits, Laurence Fishburne, Allen Garfield, Mario Van Peebles, Novella Nelson, Bob Hoskins, Richard Gere ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Indie, Period piece, Musical, Gangster, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Musical Drama

The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a famed Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The movie was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines. The cast included Nicolas Cage, Bob Hoskins, Lonette McKee, Laurence Fishburne, Fred Gwynne, Maurice Hines, James Remar, Allen Garfield and Gwen Verdon. Despite performing poorly at the box office, the film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and... MORE

The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a famed Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The movie was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines. The cast included Nicolas Cage, Bob Hoskins, Lonette McKee, Laurence Fishburne, Fred Gwynne, Maurice Hines, James Remar, Allen Garfield and Gwen Verdon. Despite performing poorly at the box office, the film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for best Best Art Direction (Richard Sylbert, George Gaines) and Film Editing. The film, however, also earned a Razzie Award nomination for Diane Lane as Worst Supporting Actress (also for Streets of Fire). The Cotton Club was the first privately financed major motion picture, paid for almost entirely by brothers Fred and Ed Doumani of Las Vegas. The movie was not successful, making only $25,928,721 on a budget of over $50 million. A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. A dancer LESS