The hyper-realist Dee wins points by bluntly admitting how she knows that nobody even notices her when her sisters are around — at least until she becomes the first in the neighborhood to get an Afro haircut.
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The big benefit is the restoration of the full Gregory and Maurice Hines subplot, which brings back three entire musical numbers and extends others.
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Francis Coppola's re-edit of The Cotton Club rebalances a storyline that the moneymen wanted trimmed back in 1984.
Truth be told, much of Cotton Club was already good, when considered scene by scene, rather than as a full movie.