TY - ADVS AU - Coppola,Francis Ford AU - Gere,Richard AU - Hines,Gregory AU - Lane,Diane AU - McKee,Lonette ED - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ED - Orion Pictures. ED - MGM Home Entertainment Inc. TI - The Cotton Club T2 - Contemporary classics SN - 0792850254 AV - CM DVD 00266 U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2001///] CY - Santa Monica, CA PB - MGM Home Entertainment KW - Cotton Club KW - Drama KW - Jazz KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Jazz musicians KW - Musical films KW - Gangster films KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Suggested by James Haskins' pictorial history The Cotton Club; Story by William Kennedy & Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo; Originally released as a motion picture in 1984; Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; edited by Barry Malkin & Robert Q. Lovett ; original music, John Barry; Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, Nicolas Cage, Fred Gwynne; Rated R; Rated R N2 - In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a pressure-cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs ER -