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Aka: Prince in New York
It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.
In this modern-day fairy tale, Eddie Murphy stars as a wealthy and pampered African prince who comes to America in search of a bride. His destination, of course, is Queens, New York. Accompanied by his closest companion (Arsenio Hall), the Prince quickly finds a job, new friends, new digs, new enemies, and more trouble than he ever imagined. COMING TO AMERICA is a hysterical fable with Murphy and Hall playing hilarious multiple roles with the help of astounding makeup effects.
Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Murphy's regal father (James Earl Jones) agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi (Arsenio Hall) along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "Joe job" at a fast-food restaurant. Murphy and Hall play multiple roles, and there are innumerable celebrity cameos peppered throughout the proceedings -- including the Duke Brothe...
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rs (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) from Trading Places. Coming to America made further headlines when humorist Art Buchwald sued the film's producers for plagiarizing one of his works. Buchwald carried the case to trial, where he won a sizeable judgement against the film's producers.
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Akeem (Murphy) is de kroonprins van Zamunda, een koninkrijk in Afrika. Akeem is opgegroeid in ongekende luxe met bedienden voor alles wat hij zich kan wensen. Zelfs zijn schoenen hoeft hij niet te strikken. Wanneer hij op 21-jarige leeftijd wordt voorgesteld aan zijn bruid weet hij na een kort gesprek dat zij niet de ware is. Hij vraagt zijn vader toestemming om naar Amerika te gaan om daar een bruid te zoeken. Aangekomen in Amerika neemt de steenrijke prins samen met zijn bediende Semmi (Hall) een arme levensstijl aan. Akeem wil namelijk een vrouw zoeken die op hem valt vanwege zijn persoonlijkheid en niet vanwe...
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ge zijn geld.
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"When I made Trading Places , Eddie was 19 or 20 and bouncing off the wall with talent and was a very happy guy," John Landis recalled recently about this year's Academy Award host drop-out. "When I made Coming to America , it was a few years later, Eddie had become an international star and was not as happy. It was awkward on that film because he was kind of a jerk, and we had a real falling out. But still we worked together very well." [Nyt]
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