 Coming to America 1988  R, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: John Landis
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Calvin Lockhart, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Cuba Gooding Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Shari Headley, Paul Bates, Eriq La Salle, Frankie Faison, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Another Eddie Murphy vehicle, but this time he stars as pampered, African Prince Akeem who, against his family's wishes, is trying to find a bride in New York City. Arsenio Hall costars as his buddy Semmi. Akeem and Semmi assume false identities as Akeem tries to find a woman who will not fall for him simply because he is a prince. They get jobs at Cleo McDowell's (John Amos) food emporium, and romance blossoms between Akeem and Cleo's daughter Lisa (Shari Headley). But now, Akeem's parents (James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair) arrive on the scene prepared to take Akeem home to Africa. Eddie and Arsenio take on several other roles in addition to their primary ones. Good fun.
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Hot Pursuit 1987  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Lisberger
Cast: John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, Jerry Stiller, Monte Markham, Shelley Fabares, Keith David, Ben Stiller, Dah-ve Chodan, Paul Bates, Ursaline Bryant, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Carlos Horcasitas, Martin LaSalle, Isaura Espinoza
College student Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) misses his plane on the way to meet his girlfriend Lori (Wendy Gazelle) and her family (Shelley Fabares, Monte Markham, and Dah-ve Chodan). He takes the next plane but then is delayed again–this time by pirate sea captain Mac MacClaren (Robert Loggia). Dan escapes, but a series of mishaps still lie on his path to Lori who is now resisting the advances of Chris Honeywell (Ben Stiller).
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Instinct 1999 R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza, John Ashton, John Aylward, Thomas Q. Morris, Doug Spinuzza, Paul Bates
A brilliant anthropology professor, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), spent two years in the jungles of Rwanda studying, and ultimately befriending, the mountain gorillas. But his odyssey ended when Powell killed several Africans and was sent to prison in the U.S. He now resides in the psycho ward where Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding Jr.) eagerly takes on Powell's case and in the process of therapy learns more than a few things about himself as well.
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 Preacher's Wife 1996 PG, 124 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Penny Marshall
Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine, Justin Pierre Edmund, William James Stiggers Jr., Paul Bates, Lionel Richie
A Yonkers church has fallen on financially difficult times when an angel, Dudley (Denzel Washington), enters the picture as the answer to the Reverend Henry Biggs' (Courtney B. Vance) prayers. Dudley, however, becomes enmeshed in a romantic tangle, and the problems he has been sent to solve do not always occupy his thoughts.
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| 1. Coming to America (1988)
2. Hot Pursuit (1987)
3. Instinct (1999)
4. Preacher's Wife (1996)
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