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DVD Harlem Nights
This is a supremely disappointing film, especially considering the talent involved. Indeed, the cast would seem to be the summit of African American comedians, starring the three most influential standups of the modern era: Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, and Eddie Murphy. Murphy obviously was paying respect to his elders when he cast them as his father and grandfather in this story of Harlem in the 1930s. Written and directed by Murphy, the plot involves gangsters and rival nightclub owners but doesn't add up. What's a particular shame is that, with three comics as funny as Murphy, Pryor, and Foxx, there are so few laughs and so much misogyny. Do you really want to watch Della Reese get shot in the foot to shut her up? That's the level of the humor here. --Marshall Fine
If you like comedy and don't mind the cuss words you will love this movie. I'm a big Eddie Murphy Fan along with Richard Pryor and Red Foxx and the three of them together in one movie together was great. I saw this move when it fist came out way back when and had forgotten about it and the other day it was on tv but all of the cussing was edited and the movie was different but still hilarious. I knew that I had to get the original and watch it again without being edited, but knowing how old the movie was it would be hard to find so i went to Yahoo and found it with no problems. Like I said before if you like to laugh you will love this.
Mark Bryan
Kingsland GA
This movie was fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This movie was hilarious. It was hilarius 16 years ago when it first came out (even though at the time I was only 12 and didnt clearly get everything that was going on.) Now that I'm older, it's even funnier!!! It was great and sad at the same time seeing Richard Pryor, knowing his current condition, Redd Foxx and Della Reese had me rolling with their back and forth bantering --- Della reminded me of my Grandmother!!!! Every scene was funny... Don't listen to the negative reviews....see it and laugh for yourself.
Very nice movie for it's time
This was a good movie provided the time it was published. It may not have flourished like it should have, but definitely a part of many movie collectors library. Redd Foxx, Della Reese, and Eddie Murphy all did wonderful jobs. Arsenio Hall also did a tremendous part as Gangster. I would definitley recommend to anyone, just beware of adult content.
Half of the characters in this 1988 John Landis potboiler seem to be played either by Eddie Murphy or costar Arsenio Hall, swaddled in elaborate Rick Baker makeup appliances that render them unrecognizable but also weirdly immobile. As a pampered African prince who journeys incognito to Queens, New York, to find a bride who will love him just for himself, Murphy manages to look smug and naive at the same time. There are enjoyable sequences of Murphy's Prince Akeem applying his lordly manner to his new job in a fast-food emporium, and falling for the boss's spirited daughter (Shari Headley), who teaches him how to party down, American style. But the fish-out-water premise is never fully exploited. Star spotters will have a field day locating Cuba Gooding Jr., Donna Summer, Louie Anderson,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Landis DVD Release Date: Released the 09 March 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Eddie Murphy makes a graceless debut as a romantic lead in this comedy from Reginald Hudlin. Murphy stars as a ladies man for whom the tables turn when he suddenly finds himself taken for granted by a lover (Robin Givens). Meanwhile, the platonic friend (Halle Berry) whom Murphy regularly visits is obviously--to the viewer, anyway--the woman he's supposed to be with. The absurdly long film is filled out with some fairly crude humor, such as the sight of Geoffrey Holder taking a whiff of Grace Jones's underwear. Yet Hudlin and Murphy also strain for a veneer of elegance and sophistication. Wanting to play it both ways, they end up with nothing. But there are several good sequences where Murphy is quite funny just being Murphy, such as his explanation to Berry of how you can tell which... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Murphy Director(s): Reginald Hudlin DVD Release Date: Released the 24 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Few things can be more noble than a wholehearted effort to tell the story of black secular music in America, especially through the eyes of a mid-20th century rhythm-and-blues vocal group breaking through race barriers to popular success. Comedian and filmmaker Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats (1991) is one such ambitious effort. If its story frequently sags under epochal burdens, the film makes up for it with a surprisingly tough look at the music business and classy appearances by Diahann Carroll and hoofer Harold Nicholas. Townsend plays one-fifth of the titular act, whose collective life and times we follow from 1965 to the 1990s, through friendships, break-ups, and re-groupings. The director's script, cowritten with Keenen Ivory Wayans, is wobbly and short on good... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert Townsend - Michael Wright Director(s): Robert Townsend DVD Release Date: Released the 22 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy play it surprisingly straight in this film by director Ted Demme. Though there are laughs to be had, this is a story about perseverance in the face of a life of disappointment (yet the film was sold as a prison comedy). But Stir Crazy this isn't. Rather, Lawrence and Murphy play a couple of New Yorkers making a moonshine run from New York to Mississippi during the Prohibition who find themselves framed for murder and sentenced for life to a prison chain gang. As they age, the two become close friends, although the strait-laced Lawrence always resents the free-wheeling Murphy for getting him into the situation in the first place. Ultimately, these two men learn to find meaning where they can, taking value from friendship and their limited ability to... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Murphy - Martin Lawrence Director(s): Ted Demme DVD Release Date: Released the 19 October 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Spike Lee's longtime cinematographer, Ernest R. Dickerson, made his directorial debut with this violent story about four Harlem teens whose lives are changed when a store robbery goes wrong. The film has been likened to an urban The Wild Bunch, but it is far too artificial for that. With Dickerson's eye, Juice understandably looks great, but at the end of the day it is only a slightly better version of the heavily clichéd crime movies that have artificially dominated perceptions of black cinema in the U.S. in the '90s. Rap fans might enjoy seeing some familiar stars on board, including Queen Latifah and Tupac Shakur. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Omar Epps - Tupac Shakur - Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins Director(s): Ernest R. Dickerson DVD Release Date: Released the 16 January 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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