I was prompted to write this review having just seen it uncut for the first time. It's an odd, strange film-a sentimental comedy with a backdrop of racism-and I kept thinking of 'Life Is Beautiful,'' another film that skirts the edge of despair.
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Watch this movie please, and if you've seen it watch it again. Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence age more than 50 years in 'Life,'' the story of two New Yorkers who spend their adult lives on a Mississippi prison farm because of some very bad luck. Lee Ermey as the racist bad guy was genius too. The Dolemite Is My Name true story reveals that during his time in the US Army, Moore served in an entertainment unit in Germany, singing country songs in R&B style.
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I've been repeating Bernie Mac's lines and the "cornbread" scene for years. The rest of the cast is as underappreciated as this movie is in general. soldier personally killed or wounded some 50 German troops, earning the Medal of Honor for one of WWIIs most astonishing battlefield actions. Their love-hate "old married couple" bickering will leave you in stitches. The enigmatic legend opens up in his first podcast interview about his hits and misses ('Any movie that I was in that they paid me a lot of money for was a fing smash'), the world today (". The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. Having cost 15 million to make, Trading Places ultimately made 90 million at the US box office alone. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Paramount’s fears that a comedy headlined by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy wouldn’t fare well at the box office proved to be unfounded. Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor and comedian. With Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly. It was one of the biggest box office hits of 1983. They don't do that so much here, but these guys age from mid-20s to 90s convincingly. This Eddie Murphy comedy had all the ingredients to be both a famous movie and an award-winner, but neither happened. To Hell and Back: Directed by Jesse Hibbs. Murphy with the Nutty Professor characters, demonstrates serious acting ability while creating laughs. While on the surface, Claude and Ray are sentenced to life in prison for a crime they didn't commit, the real story here is about life-the ups and downs, the choices you make, and the friends you sometimes can't stand but ultimately depend upon along the way.īoth Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence became known for, along with being very funny, the characters they create. It certainly is no serious take on a subject that would be all-too serious elsewhere, but the double entendre of the title belies the reason, besides all the talent present, why this film works so well.
If you go to the movies to be entertained, it doesn't get much better than this.
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