Nueva York, años veinte. Los gángsters dominan la ciudad. Sus centros de reunión suelen ser selectos clubes donde se escucha el mejor jazz, como el Cotton Club. Amor, música y crimen, unidos en una sola película.
Reparto:
Richard Gere
Gregory Hines
Diane Lane
Lonette McKee
Bob Hoskins
James Remar Nicolas Cage
Allen Garfield
Fred Gwynne
Gwen Verdon
Lisa Jane Persky
Maurice Hines
Julian Beck
Novella Nelson
Laurence Fishburne
Tom Waits
Ron Karabatsos
Glenn Withrow
Jennifer Grey
Wynonna Smith
Thelma Carpenter
Charles 'Honi' Coles
Larry Marshall
Joe Dallesandro
Ed O'Ross
Frederick Downs Jr.
Diane Venora
Tucker Smallwood
Woody Strode
Bill Graham
Dayton Allen
Kim Chan
Ed Rowan
Leonard Termo
George Cantero
Brian Tarantina
Bruce MacVittie
James Russo
Giancarlo Esposito
Bruce Howard
Rony Clanton
Damien Leake
Bill Cobbs
Joe Lynn
Oscar Barnes
Edward Zang
Sandra Beall
Zane Mark
Tom Signorelli
Paul Herman
Randle Mell
Steve Vignari
Susan Mechsner
Gregory Rozakis
Marc Coppola
Norma Jean Darden
Robert Earl Jones
Vincent Jerosa
Rosalind Harris
Steve Carfiso
John Carfiso
Domino
Patricia LeTang
Christopher Lewis
Danielle Osborne
Jason Papalardo
Demetrius Pena
Priscilla Baskerville
Ethel Barry
Sydney Goldsmith
James 'Buster' Brown
Ralph Brown
Harold Cromer
Bubba Gaines
George Hillman
Henry 'Phace' Roberts
Jimmy Slide
Henry LeTang
Charles Young
Skip Cunningham
Luther Fontaine
Jan Mickens
Lydia Abarca
Sarita Allen
Tracey Bass
Ethel Beatty
Jacquelyn Bird
Shirley Black-Brown
Lester Brown
Benny Clorey
Sherry Cowart
Karen DiBianco
Cisco Drayton
Anne Duquesnay
Carla Earle
Wendy Edmead
Debbie Fitts
Terri Griffin
Robin Harmon
Sonya Hensley
Dave Jackson
Gail Kendricks
Christina Kuvi Kimball
Mary Beth Kurdock
Paula Lynn
Bernard Manners
Bernard Marsh
David McHarris
Delores McHarris
Alice Anne Oates
Anne Palmer
Judy Pars
Antonia Pettiford
Valerie Pettiford
Janet Powell
Renee Rodriguez
Tracey Ross
Kiki Shepard
Gary Thomas
Mario Van Peebles
Karen Wadkins
Ivery Wheeler
Donald Williams
Alexis Wilson
John P. Ryan
Howard 'Sandman' Sims
