Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
- jazz
- gang war
- nightclub
- jazz singer or musician
- musical
- jazz club
- mafia
- song and dance
- mob boss
- harlem
- new york city
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Julian Beck — Sol Weinstein
- Novella Nelson — Madame St. Clair
- Laurence Fishburne — Bumpy Rhodes
- Directed
- Francis Ford Coppola
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 453 ratings
- Studio
- Totally Independent, PSO, American Zoetrope, Robert Evans Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
