Tagged: Eddie Murphy

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Coming 2 America (2021)

Coming 2 America is the much-belated sequel to Eddie Murphy’s most popular of starring vehicles, 1988’s Coming to America. Murphy returns to his role as Akeem Joffer, an obscenely wealthy prince of the fictional...

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Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

The most comedic of the Beverly Hills Cop films turns out to be the least amusing, despite a veteran director (Landis, An American Werewolf in London) and screenwriter (de Souza, Hudson Hawk), ones who have worked with Murphy...

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Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Discussions of a sequel to Beverly Hills Cop began before its release in theaters. Nevertheless, Paramount execs took a wait-and-see approach but didn’t have to wait long, as it shattered box office records for...

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

In the mid-1970s, Don Simpson relocated to Beverly Hills for a job developing films for Paramount Pictures. A mechanic’s son from Anchorage, Alaska, Simpson felt out of place residing among the wealthy elite. After...

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The Golden Child (1986)

The Golden Child is said to have been originally conceived of as a more serious adventure, intended to star Mel Gibson, but those plans fell through.  When Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places) became available,...

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Boomerang (1992)

The period of Eddie Murphy’s career between Coming to America in 1987 and The Nutty Professor in 1996 has always been considered a darker period, with Murphy struggling to retain his superstar status only to find commercial failure. ...

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Bowfinger (1999)

Bobby Bowfinger (Martin) is a small-time Hollywood producer who becomes enamored of a script a friend of his writes, a schlock alien invasion story called “Chubby Rain”. Thinking this will be the film which takes...

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Trading Places (1983)

Some people may be too young to remember the days when Dan Aykroyd or Eddie Murphy could make a funny movie or even director John Landis for that matter.  They say that comedy is all...

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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

The Distinguished Gentleman is one of those rare Eddie Murphy vehicles that has aged well, produced at a time when his superstardom was on the decline, during his critically dormant period between his last racy...