Biography: Eddie Murphy |

The son of a Brooklyn policeman who died when he was eight, African-American comedy superstar Eddie Murphy was raised in the comfortable middle-class community of Hempstead, NY, by his mother and stepfather. A natural-born class clown, he was voted... more
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The Incredible Shrinking Man (2012)
Cast: Eddie Murphy   
Length: min
Eddie Murphy stars in this new incarnation of Richard Matheson's classic adventure, this time portrayed with a comic slant in the tale of a magician who must break a shrinking hex that's been thrown on him before he grows so small that he ceases to...

Tags: Comedy 
Length: min
Norbit writing duo Jay Scherick and David Ronn re-team to pen this family-friendly Eddie Murphy comedy adapted from the popular late-'70s/early-'80s television series and featuring the former SNL funnyman in numerous roles -- including that of the...

Tags: Action Comedy Comedy Police Comedy 
Length: min
Axel Foley is back on the beat in this belated entry in the popular Beverly Hills Cop film series that finds Eddie Murphy revisiting the character that helped launch him to international stardom in the mid-'80s. The fourth installment is set to be...

Cast: Nicolas Cage   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: min
Norbit director Brian Robbins re-teams with that film's star Eddie Murphy for this comedy about a smooth-talking man who discovers that he has only 1000 words left to speak before dying. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast: Julie Andrews Antonio Banderas   
Tags: Fairy Tales & Legends Family 
Length: 92min
Shrek and Fiona's (Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, respectively) fairy-tale wedding has gone off without a hitch, yet just as the beaming newlyweds prepare to enjoy their blissful "happily ever after," the sudden death of King Harold (John Cleese) finds...

Cast: Martin Sheen   
Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 
Length: 107min
A powerful financial executive whose career was sent spiraling down the drain due to sudden lack of confidence finds the answers to his inexplicable setback in an imaginary world dreamt up by his young daughter in a fantasy comedy starring Eddie...

Tags: Gross-Out Comedy Comedy Romantic Comedy 
Length: 102min
A meek and lovable milquetoast married to an overbearing, overweight tyrant finds his life turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams in this omantic comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Eddie Griffin. His...

Tags: Sci-Fi Comedy Comedy 
Length: 90min
With their home planet in danger and no place in the known universe to seek shelter, a desperate crew of miniature alien humanoids boards a human spacecraft in hopes of saving their doomed world. Eddie Murphy stars in a sci-fi comedy that re-teams the...

Cast: Danny Glover Jamie Foxx   
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Musical Showbiz Drama 
Length: 130min
Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson),...

Cast: Mike Myers Cameron Diaz   
Tags: Holiday Film Fantasy Comedy Fairy Tales & Legends Children's Fantasy 
Length: 22min
Picking up where Shrek the Third left off, this animated, original, half-hour special finds Shrek (Mike Meyers) doing his best to get into the Christmas spirit. Having promised Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and the kids that this will be the best Christmas...



























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