The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The film was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee. The supporting cast included Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Gwen Verdon and Fred Gwynne. The film was noted for its over-budget production costs, and took a total of five years to make. Critical reception was mostly positive and "The Cotton Club" was
Richard Gere ballroom dancing drama "Shall We Dance?" (2004) was also a solid performer that grossed $170 million worldwide. His next film, the book-to-screen adaptation "Bee Season" (2005), was a commercial failure. Gere went on to co-star with Jesse Eisenberg and Terrence Howard in "The Hunting Party" (2007), a thriller in which he played a journalist in Bosnia. He next appeared with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett in Todd Haynes' semi-biographical film about Bob Dylan, "I'm Not There" (2007); Gere was one of six actors to portray a variation of Dylan. Gere co-starred with Diane Lane in the romantic drama