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.
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Worldwide
- $26M
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Cast
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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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Box Office & Release
The Cotton Club returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $58M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $26M
- Release date
- Dec 14, 1984
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Italian
- Country
- United States of America
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