Eddie Murphy joined Saturday Night Live at nineteen and is generally credited with saving the show, then became the most commercially successful comic actor of the 1980s with 48 Hrs, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America.
The 1990s and 2000s brought a run of family films and multiple-role performances under prosthetics, in The Nutty Professor and Norbit.
Dreamgirls brought a Best Supporting Actor nomination, and Dolemite Is My Name is the late achievement, playing Rudy Ray Moore with genuine affection.
Eddie MurphyThe Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred million dollars was spent on a lunar nightclub comedy that took about four and a half million worldwide, which is among the worst…
Dan AykroydTrading Places is John Landis's 1983 American comedy depicting two wealthy commodity brokers who place a one-dollar wager on whether a homeless con artist and an Ivy League executive can be switched places without either knowing about the experiment, with…
Antonio BanderasThe Shrek franchise consists of six feature productions across approximately twenty-one years of continuous DreamWorks production. The 2001 original is one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century and the production that established DreamWorks Animation as…
BD WongMulan is one of the substantial late Disney Renaissance productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Chinese cultural material. The film appeared during the latter portion of the Disney Renaissance period.
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