The Cotton Club

Part fictional and part non-fictional, this lavish two-hour Francis Ford Coppola film spotlights the Cotton Club, the legendary, real-life Harlem jazz nightclub that flourished in the Prohibition era of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Richard Gere plays Dixie Dwyer,... Full review

The Cotton Club has a reputation, in the movie world as well as in the history books, as being a notorious heaven/hell for most involved. Desptie it being over-budget and under-whelming at the box-office, what remains is probably one of... Full review

I HAVE LOOKED AT THIS MOVIE ONCE A WEEK SINCE IT CAME OUT ON VHS THEN DVD. I LOVE IT!!! I WISH I WAS BACK IN THE 1920'S JUST KNOWING THAT THE MEN WHORE SUITS EVERYDAY AND THE WOMEN DRESSED SO... Full review

This movie should have had more recognition, the acting to me was the only thing I didn't like. Even though Richard Gere is such a good actor, he just didn't act very good in this one.... Full review

A very stylish but rough and profane account of gangsters ("Dutch" Schultz and the like) and music during the 1920s. The scene is Harlem (NYC) at the Cotton Club, which is still run by whites who are pictured as big... Full review

I have seen the Cotton Club countless times on video and on cable and saw it when it first release about 20 yrs ago. The picture always holds up. The combination of story, music and characters is as solid know as... Full review

I saw this movie when it first came out and I thought it was a mess. Now years later while I have the luxury of sitting in my house watching the various showings on cable, I like a better. Why... Full review

This is an excellent movie. Written by Mario Puzo, it incorporates all the features of a well written novel. I have seen it so many times. I initially saw it when I was in high school in the movie theater when... Full review

Great movie. Love the fact that Gere really learned trumpet for his role and the dance sequences are wonderful. Overall, i pop this one in when i need a feel good fix.... Full review

I watched this movie because of the black tap dancing. I thought it was wonderful seeing Gregory and his brother. This was a pretty good good gangster movie. This movie was and it had good actors in it realistic.... Full review

As a spectacle, The Cotton Club is highly impressive. His highly ambitious 1984 epic The Cotton Club was fraught with problems from the get-go, including constant script changes, production difficulties and personal bickerings, and while the finished product is a visually impressive homage to films of the gangster and musical genres of the 1930s ... Full Review

By the time it was released, The Cotton Club's epic production story of power struggles, financial bloat, and even a murder overshadowed the "reunion" of The Godfather's creative team. ... Full Review

After all the rumors, all the negative publicity, all the stories of fights on the set and backstage intrigue and imminent bankruptcy, Francis Ford Coppola 's THE COTTON CLUB is, quite simply, a wonderful movie. Whatever it took to do it, Coppola has extracted a very special film out of the checkered history of this project. ... Full Review

He obviously wanted to make a deliriously upbeat movie, even....He reached the pinnacle of this trend in 1984 with The Cotton Club , an ambitious dual homage to two of the great film genres of the 1930s:....a movie about The Cotton Club itself might have been more intriguing than a movie that simply uses it as an atmospheric backdrop..... ... Full Review

By the time it was released, The Cotton Club 's epic production story of power struggles, financial bloat, and even a murder overshadowed the "reunion" of The Godfather 's creative team. Mixing historical figures with characters loosely based on actual people, Coppola and co-writers William Kennedy and The Godfather 's Mario Puzo create a panorama of love, crime, and entertainment centered on the Club. ... Full Review

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