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Release Date: 1988

Cast: James Earl Jones, Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Garcelle Beauvais, Calvin Lockhart, Eddie Murphy, Louie Anderson, Arsenio Hall, Ralph Bellamy, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jake Steinfeld ...MORE

Cast: James Earl Jones, Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Garcelle Beauvais, Calvin Lockhart, Eddie Murphy, Louie Anderson, Arsenio Hall, Ralph Bellamy, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jake Steinfeld, Paul Bates, Kara Young, Shari Headley, Samuel L. Jackson, Eriq La Salle, Allison Dean, Don Ameche, Frankie Faison ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Comedy, Romance Film, Comedy of manners, Comedy of Errors

Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein based on a story originally created by Art Buchwald. The film stars Eddie Murphy, who plays an African prince who comes to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry. Akeem Joffer (Eddie Murphy), the prince and heir to the throne of the fictitious African country of great wealth called Zamunda, is discontented with being pampered all his life. The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones) and Queen Aeoleon ( MORE

Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein based on a story originally created by Art Buchwald. The film stars Eddie Murphy, who plays an African prince who comes to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry. Akeem Joffer (Eddie Murphy), the prince and heir to the throne of the fictitious African country of great wealth called Zamunda, is discontented with being pampered all his life. The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones) and Queen Aeoleon (Madge Sinclair), present him with a bride-to-be, Imani Izzi (Vanessa Bell), whom he has never met, and who is trained to obey his every command. Akeem concocts a plan to travel to the United States to find a wife he can both love and respect and who accepts him for himself, not his status. He and his friend and personal aide, Semmi (Arsenio Hall) arrive in Queens, New York City, because according to Akeem "What better place to find a queen than the city of Queens?" They rent a squalid apartment in the neighborhood of Jamaica and begin working at a local fast food restaurant called McDowell's LESS