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Movie Info

Nightclub owner Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1980s New York club scene with a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Billy Corben
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 23, 2011 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 12, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$59.7K
Runtime:

1h 32m

Cast & Crew

Billy Corben
Director

News & Interviews for Limelight

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Critic Reviews for Limelight

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (7)

The movie was produced by Jen Gatien, its subject's daughter, so its agenda should be fairly obvious. But it's an engrossing story nonetheless.

October 13, 2011 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
Depending on your age, Limelight could make you nostalgic for those bad old days - and sort of glad you'll never be able to relive them.

October 13, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
Watching Limelight, about the rise and politically engineered fall of onetime Manhattan nightclub kingpin Peter Gatien, is like looking through a family album: If you're in the family, you might be interested.

September 24, 2011

John Anderson
Variety
Gatien's story is worth telling. Which makes it all the more unfortunate that director Billy Corben presents it in such a methodical fashion.

September 23, 2011 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
Limelight offers a few moderately enlightening interviews and a lot of candy-colored lights.

September 23, 2011 | Full Review…

Mark Jenkins
NPR
Transporting as it is, this doc leaves a bad taste in your mouth, if just for the ill will it drudges up.

September 23, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
This documentary film about the rise and fall of big nightclubs is a cautionary tale about the abuses of police power as well as a tale of two completely conflicting conservative political policies relating to the regulation of businesses.

February 2, 2012 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
Couldn't be more sympathetic to the much maligned Gatien.

December 1, 2011 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
An engaging story which includes corruption, murder, drugs, violence and the right to party.

December 1, 2011 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Clay Cane
BET.com
[VIDEO] You can't relive the heady days and nights of Manhattan's club scene, but you can soak up some of the flavor. You'll also get a crash course in the city's muscle of political corruption that seems to increase with every passing year.

September 23, 2011 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
Limelight joins an ever-growing movie and book library about the glory days of New York club life.

September 23, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Liz Braun
Jam! Movies
lifts the entertaining veil of smoke and mirrors only to uncover an oligarchy turning the screws on an unknowing body politic

September 22, 2011 | Rating: 4/5

Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com