Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall Star in “Coming 2 America” on Amazon Prime
The Return of the King: Eddie Murphy Rules in “Coming 2 America”
If you’re looking for “throw back” fun from Eddie Murphy’s “Coming to America”, also starring Arsenio Hall, you’ll get the best walk down memory lane with Coming 2 America now premiering on Amazon Prime.
In 1988, Murphy, by then fully in control of his career, made “Coming to America.” The big budget comedy ($36 million, or $81 million in 2021 dollars) was based on a character he created, Prince Akeem Joffer, the scion of a fictional African country who bucks the tradition of arranged marriage and comes to Queens in search of a liberated American woman to be an equal partner.
It’s really impossible to overstate how huge a star Eddie Murphy was in the 1980s. At the beginning of the decade, he singlehandedly saved Saturday Night Live after the original cast — and the audience — had moved on. He made his big-screen debut in 1982’s 48 Hours; two years later, he was so big he turned down Ghostbusters for Beverly Hills Cop, which became the highest grossing comedy in history.
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