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Harlem, New York City | Jazz
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Best Costume Design | 1986 | Milena
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1985
Best Director Motion Picture | 1985 | Francis Ford
Best Sound | 1986
Best Foreign Language Film | 1986
Best Sound Editing Sound Effects | 1985 | Maurice
Budget 58,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 25,928,721 USD
When Francis Ford Coppola called up Bob Hoskins to offer him a part, the actor didn't believe it was really him. Coppola introduced himself, to which Hoskins replied, "Yeah, and this is Henry the fucking Eighth", and hung up.
At one point relations were so strained between director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Robert Evans that Coppola had Evans banned from the set.
The relationship in the film between the characters played by Gregory Hines and Maurice Hines was partly based on their real lives.
Richard Gere really is an accomplished trumpet player and performed his own solos in this movie.
Laurence Fishburne's character, Bumpy Rhodes, was based on real-life Harlem gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Fishburne would play Bumpy in Hoodlum (1997) 13 years later.
"Vera: You've got about as much style as a bowl of turnips."
"Owney: In the next room, gentlemen, is the finest food, drink and pussy in New York at a price."
