

The Cotton Club
Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $58M
- Box office
- $25.9M
- Language
- English
- jazz
- gang war
- nightclub
- jazz singer or musician
- musical
- jazz club
- mafia
- song and dance
- mob boss
- harlem, new york city
- trumpet player
- 1920s
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Produced in
United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR14 Dec 1984
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical3 Jan 1985
BrazilBR
- Theatrical16IMDB15 May 1986
- TV14Multipole mj.gov.br19 Jun 2001
GermanyDE
- Theatrical18Jugendfilm22 Feb 1985
- TheatricalProgress (East Germany)30 Jan 1987
- Physical18Studiocanal28 Jan 2003
GreeceGR
- Theatrical164 Apr 1985
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical186 Jul 1985
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The Cotton Club was released on 14 December 1984.
Audience reviews
1- J7.5/10
John Chard
4/27/2015
And all - that - jazz! Far better than its iffy reputation suggests, The Cotton Club is guilty of being stuffed to the gills, but it also contains mighty fine film making that shows craft both behind and in front of the camera. Set in late 1920s Harlem, the pitch is an area of New York rife with swinging jazz, racism, crooks and gangsters. Prohibition and the depression fill the air just as the talkie movie bur…
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