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Release Date: 1988

Cast: Don Ameche, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Arsenio Hall, Eriq La Salle, Kara Young, Eddie Murphy, Louie Anderson, John Amos, Frankie Faison, Garcelle Beauvais, Shari Headley, Jake Steinfeld ...MORE

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

Categories: Movies, Romantic Comedy, Romance Film, Comedy Of Manners, Comedy, Comedy Of Errors, Drama Film

Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, from a story by Eddie Murphy, who also stars in the film. Murphy plays an African prince, who heads to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry. Coming to America is the first of several films in which Murphy plays multiple characters. 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... MORE

Coming to America is a 1988 comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, from a story by Eddie Murphy, who also stars in the film. Murphy plays an African prince, who heads to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry. Coming to America is the first of several films in which Murphy plays multiple characters. 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 rat-infested apartment, with one window facing a brick LESS