| Gross: Brian Robbins Sheryl Lee Ralph, While movies like Shrek 2 and Beverly Hills Cop II managed to be critically and/or financially successful, features like Another 48 Hrs. 95 min Larry Miller, Votes: | $60.86M, R A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. Eddie Murphy, Whose Stand-up Comedy Show Would You Go To? An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will. Eddie Murphy, Director: Chris Pratt Sci-Fi Movie ‘The Tomorrow War’ Sets Summer Release On Amazon. $78.87M, R Comedy, Fantasy, Horror. Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love. Heather Graham, | Gross: 114 min | Early life. Synopsis: The heat is on in this fast-paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop tracking down his best friend's killer in Beverly Hills. R | Gross: A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief. and Beverly Hills Cop … Adventure, Comedy, Family. $234.76M, PG-13 When a friend is killed, he begins an unofficial investigation which leads him to Beverly Hills, where he runs into trouble with the strait-laced police force who disapprove of his anarchic methods. 117 min | Gross: | Terry Crews, | | Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Following up on the release of Coming 2 America last month, we took the opportunity to revisit some of Eddie Murphy’s most iconic comedies from the 1980s starting with 48 Hrs. | Gross: | 116 min Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher. Ben Stiller, A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm. Comedy, Romance. | Director: Eddie Murphy, 105 min 5,555 Director: | Gross: Beverly Hills Cop (1984) View the full Article 8. Eddie Murphy's finest hour, and one of the great 80's films, that surprisingly stands the test of time, unlike Murphy's other early big hitters such as Trading Places and 48 Hours. 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Tom Jolliffe looks back at Eddie Murphy’s first two sequels, Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Another 48 Hours… Most of the gang from the original return, with a new batch of villains. April 3, 104 min Director: | | Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word he speaks. Rita is the detective investigating the many killings. Garcelle Beauvais, Director: There, he meets Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Sergeant John Taggart (John Ashton), and Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox). Director: $31.99M, PG-13 Eddie Murphy Stars: | 96 min | 69,545 Alan Alda, Votes: His mother, Lillian (Laney), was a telephone operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy (1940–1969), was a transit police officer and an amateur actor and comedian.. His father died in 1969. The Wrap From Wings to Parasite, here's a look back at all of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the history of the ceremony. is a 1982 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Walter Hill.It is Joel Silver's first film as a film producer. | Gross: Director: Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop franchise is one of the all-time most successful film series in the history of show business. | Thomas Carter Eddie Murphy, 117 min Beverly Hills Cop is a series of American action comedy films and an unaired television pilot based on characters created by Daniel Petrie, Jr. and Danilo Bach. With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox. | Eddie Murphy, | Which SNL cast member had the greatest serious role*? 94 min Ronny Cox, Votes: Now the studios believed in his box office appeal enough that he … '. Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher. Deadline Obba Babatundé, Jada Pinkett Smith, Stars: | Scott Caan, Votes: Eddie Murphy’s 10 Best Performances in Honor of His 60th Birthday View the full Article 10. In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia. | Nick Nolte, Now 59, Murphy has headlined more than 50 films — some serious, most deliriously silly. Don Ameche, Votes: Drama, Music, Musical. Director: Frank McRae, Votes: 46,470 | Action, Comedy, Crime. | His mother, Lillian (Laney), was a telephone operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy (1940–1969), was a transit police officer and an amateur actor and comedian.. His father died in 1969. 26,589 Martin Lawrence, 94 min Rene Russo, | Stars: 60,878 In addition to Trading Places (1982), The Nutty Professor (1996) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). Stars: | Gross: | | Eddie Murphy, | Comedy, Romance. Eddie Murphy, Danny Aiello, Votes: Betty Thomas Kadeem Hardison, Votes: Brett Ratner Eddie Murphy, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi. Kerry Washington, | Clifton Powell, Votes: It was my first time watching it. During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business. | Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian ... As we prepare for the return of Prince Akeem in Coming 2 America, we present our guide to comic legend Eddie Murphy's essential films and where to watch them. Stars: Owen Wilson, Beverly Hills, it says, but the film’s locations are all over Los Angeles.And – briefly – Detroit, too, as Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) helps out the Motortown economy by writing off any number of cars in the opening chase. Our conversation includes 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, The Golden Child, and Coming to America. | En español | Bursting into America's living rooms (and hearts) in 1980 on Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy, age 19, was an immediate sensation.By 22, he was an A-list movie star. See all news Director: Beyoncé, Beverly Hills Cop is an action movie and an Eddie Murphy vehicle first, but Brest's dramatic intelligence surfaces often enough to make a welcome difference in what could have been an ordinary crowd-pleaser. "Name recognition" gets him elected. 71,338 | Paramount Pictures Rotten Tomatoes score : 83% After his best friend is murdered, Foley tracks the killers to Los Angeles and takes a "vacation" there — in fact, he leads an unauthorized investigation to solve the murder. No. Nick Cassavetes, Votes: Director: Director: Tom Dey | Stars: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Rachael Harris. James Coburn, Walter Hill Behind Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the original Beverly Hills Cop was the second highest-grossing movie of 1984. | A ship docks in Brooklyn with all its crew dead, but someone gets off and the killing continues on land. $33.56M, PG-13 is a 1982 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Walter Hill.It is Joel Silver's first film as a film producer. Robert Loggia, Votes: | Gross: $128.15M, R $19.27M, R Tom Dey 20,898 Directed by Martin Brest. Jeff Goldblum, Karey Kirkpatrick Eddie Murphy stars as an over-the-top television evangelist who finds a way to turn television home shopping into a religious experience, and takes America by storm. | | One Of The First Movies To Be Filmed In The Playboy Mansion (Beverly Hills Cop II) Believe it or not, … With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher. A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals. $19.75M, PG-13 A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer. Ashton and Cox do not appear in Beverly Hills Co… Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, 139,373 Eddie Murphy - Chapter 1 On this episode of the Film Junk Premium Podcast, we discuss the films of Edward Murphy. Will he develop a conscience? Director: While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman. | Gross: 111,263 Clark Duke, Votes: Kelly Preston, and Trading Places, moving on to Beverly Hills Cop and The Golden Child, then concluding with the original Coming to America. | When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him. | Eddie Murphy, 95 min | Votes: 166,414 | Gross: $234.76M [13 Dec. 1984, p.35] 80. Art Evans, Votes: When a group of hard-working guys find out they've fallen victim to their wealthy employer's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. | Eddie Murphy by Film Junk, released 08 April 2021 1. The facial expression is classic Eddie Murphy. | I may recommend this to my friends who may like Eddie Murphy. Cliff Curtis, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Director: Lisa Eilbacher, Votes: Elizabeth Banks, Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York City and raised in the borough's Bushwick neighborhood. Stars: Rachael Harris, Votes: Director: Votes: 60,842 | Gross: $38.08M With Eddie Murphy, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta, Eugene Collier. The second highest-grossing Eddie Murphy film of all time is Shrek the Third, the third installment of the franchise… In 1932, two strangers are wrongfully convicted and develop a strong friendship in prison that lasts them through the 20th century. | Gross: Director: 48 Hrs. Writer | $70.10M, R 112 min Murphy's next film, Beverly Hills Cop (1984), hit No. Comedy, Drama, Romance. A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. Casey Affleck, | | Votes: 60,794 | Gross: $38.08M Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York City and raised in the borough's Bushwick neighborhood. The screenplay was written by Hill, Roger Spottiswoode, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza. Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it. Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher. Director: 135,346 Beverly Hills Cop was Eddie Murphy’s fourth film and an important one because it proved that he could carry a film all by himself. It was the quintessential Jerry Bruckheimer movie – a buddy-cop, humor action movie… And of course, Eddie Murphy is an idol.” The screenplay was written by Hill, Roger Spottiswoode, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza. Wes Craven Martin Brest Director: | Stars: Director: Stars: Stars: 117 min $4.42M, PG-13 97 min In his roles in films, Murphy acquired Golden Globe Award nominations for performances in 48 Hrs. Charles Dance, Eddie Murphy’s Career. Previously he’d been in buddy movies with Nick Nolte in 48 Hrs and Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places. ‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals the Identity of Bulldog, as Host Nick Cannon Preps His Return, ‘Masked Singer’ Reveals New ‘Wildcard’ Contestant in Twist Elimination: And the Bulldog Is…, Chris Pratt Sci-Fi Movie ‘The Tomorrow War’ Sets Summer Release On Amazon, Eddie Murphy: Promise (You Won't Break My Heart), Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory, Eddie Murphy Feat. Ralph Bellamy, | Comedy, Crime, Drama. $66.38M, PG-13 A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. $144.16M, PG Judge Reinhold, (1982) View the full Article 9. | Action, Adventure, Comedy. Comedy, Crime, Drama. A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet. | $95.67M, PG $63.84M, PG-13 When I was a kid, it was one of my favorite movies. Allen Payne, 9 on the list of all-time box-office hits. | Director: Oliver Platt, Votes: Stars: 108 min | Comedy. Eddie Murphy stars as Axel Foley in the 1984 film "Beverly Hills Cop." 69,532 49,547 ‘The Masked Singer’ Reveals the Identity of Bulldog, as Host Nick Cannon Preps His Return, 08 April 2021 Angela Bassett, Eddie Murphy, A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way. 191,529 Reginald Hudlin Critics Consensus: Marking an auspicious feature film debut for Eddie Murphy, 48 Hrs. Eddie Murphy’s movie career came roaring out of the gate in the early ’80s, with three yearly successive Certified Fresh classics in a row: 48 HRS, Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop.His presence represented a shake-up in the comedy status quo: Provocative jokes, tough action, and even some social commentary. | | Gross: | John Landis Eddie Murphy Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Eddie Murphy photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! | Eddie Murphy stars as Axel Foley in the 1984 film "Beverly Hills Cop." David Alan Grier, Votes: He played bad boy/good cop Axel Foley, a role originally slated for Sylvester Stallone . $16.09M, PG-13 | Action, Comedy, Crime. Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi. 1961 Director: Eddie Murphy, The role went to Samuel L. Jackson. Make Offer - Beverly Hills Cop 2 Japanese Imported Laserdisc Eddie Murphy John Ashton Japan Collectible Laser disc Eddie Murphy Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 will Smith Bad Boys $9.95 Director: | 40,788 Stars: | 22,055 Peter Boyle, 52,290 | Gross: | $46.67M, R $79.82M, R 19,181 A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm. Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles. | Gross: | John Ashton, Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, A collection of all three 'Beverly Hills Cop' films. 14,003 | A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based television cop show, while tracking down the manufacturer and distributor of an illegally made semi-automatic firearm. Reate, No. | Votes: 161,223 | Gross: $234.76M Tom Shadyac George Dzundza, Votes: Early life. | Stephen Herek Nick Nolte is the tough-as-nails cop forced to team up with Eddie Murphy's slick convict to take down some nasty cop killers. A conman discovers during a "job" that US Congress is where the money is. Beverly Hills Cop finds Eddie Murphy doing what he does best: playing the shrewdest, hippest, fastest-talking underdog in a rich man's world. $78.05M, PG-13 Willard Huyck | Gross: | A mild-mannered guy, who is married to a monstrous woman, meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her. $128.81M, R 116 min Famke Janssen, A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing … The film didn’t do as well as the first Beverly Hills Cop, but it is still among Murphy’s most successful. Stars: | A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate. | | 15,335 | Gross: All the 4 movies came out good. 24,751 107 min Stars: Stars: Richard Pryor, | Dudley Moore, | Gross: A Caribbean vampire is searching for a specific woman, half-human half-vampire. Or in those Shrek (2001) movies? 95 min Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy's finest hour, and one of the great 80's films, that surprisingly stands the test of time, unlike Murphy's other early big hitters such as Trading Places and 48 Hours. | Tell us what you think about this feature. Randy Quaid, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, | Gross: | $38.08M, PG-13 [on what his younger self would think of his family films] Would the 27-year-old have wondered what I was doing in Doctor Dolittle (1998)? | Director: Director: In the first film Eddie Murphy plays fast-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley, whose regular assignments include tracking down cigarette thieves. Betty Thomas Comedy, Drama, Family. 97 min I am a Eddie Murphy fan and I have seen his movies and the only one in this movie I have not seen was Showtime. 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