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Harlem Nights
Having an illegal casino, that has gained a huge popularity during the 1930s, brings terrible for Sugar, the casino owner, who struggles against saving his business from the corrupted police officers and his enemies of criminals, who seek to close the casino and destroy his life, the thing that leads him to fight them.
7 January 1960, Newark, New Jersey, USA
27 November 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 October 1928, New York City, New York, USA
6 July 1931, Detroit, Michigan, USA
July 30, 2002
Though it's not easy to watch, Harlem Nights is gorgeous to look at.January 01, 2000
An uninspired cross between Cotton Club and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does.January 01, 2000
It's narcissistic, misogynistic and extremely mean-spirited.July 25, 2002
There's maybe two funny moments in this shrill directorial bomb from Eddie Murphy.January 01, 2000
Once there was Freddy. Once there was Chuckie and Jason and Howard the Duck. Now there is the scariest of them all. Now there is Harlem Nights.January 01, 2000
Does it matter to Eddie Murphy whether Harlem Nights is good or bad? It doesn't look like it.February 12, 2004
Not as bad as you might think, but not all that good either.October 27, 2016
The movie is a whirlingly divergent romp, blending serious violence with outrageous comedy, but it has the feel of oral history, of lives and times rescued from oblivion.July 26, 2002
Ugly, pushy and over-the-top, but there's still a bunch of laughs to be found.