Eddie Murphy is Prince Akeem......Coming to America.
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Cast
- Paul Bates
- Eddie Murphy
- Garcelle Beauvais
- Feather
- Stephanie Simon
- Victoria Dillard
- Felicia Taylor
- Midori
- James Earl Jones
- Madge Sinclair
- Sheila Johnson
- Arsenio Hall
- Raymond D. Turner
- Calvin Lockhart
- Billi Gordon
- Vanessa Bell Calloway
- Jake Steinfeld
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Clint Smith
- Frankie Faison
- Uncle Ray Murphy
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
- Paulette Banoza
- Clyde Risley Jones
- Patricia Matthews
- Mary Bond Davis
- Mary Young
- Carla Earle
- Karen Owens
- Sharon Owens
- Lisa Gumora
- June Boykins
- Janette Colon
- Vanessa Colon
- Monique Mannen
- Mindora Mimms
- Cynthia Finkley
- John Amos
- Allison Dean
- Shari Headley
- Eriq La Salle
- Louie Anderson
- David Sosna
- Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Dottie
- Arthur Adams
- Loni Kaye Harkless
- Montrose Hagins
- Tonja Rivers
- Don Ameche
- Ralph Bellamy
- Elaine Kagan
- Michael Tadross
- Steve White
- Helen Hanft
- Birdie M. Hale
- Jim Abrahams
- Leah Aldridge
- Aurorah Allain
- Paula Brown
- Dwayne Chattman
- Stephanie Clark
- Robin L. Dimension
- Shaun Earl
- Eric L. Ellis
- Sharon Ferrol-Young
- Eric D. Henderson
- Gigi Hunter
- Debra Johnson
- Tanya Lynne Lee
- Jimmy Locust
- Donna M. Perkins
- Dionne Rockhold
- Gina Consuela Rose
- Randolph Scott
- Robbin Tasha-Ford
- Jerald Vincent
- Eyan Williams
- Roy Milton Davis
- Dorian DeMichele
- Karl Denson
- Gloria Ellington
- Alison Gordy
- Vincent Harta
- Tobe Hooper
- David Hummel
- Bianca McEachin
- Angel Ramirez Jr.
- Stan Rodarte
- Nick Savage
- Scott Shepherd
Plots
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 will.
It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life.
Akeem is the prince of Zamunda, an African nation, and has everything that he could ever ask for, but yearns to be more independent. On his 21st birthday, he and his aide set off to America so he can marry a woman who will love him for who he is, rather than his social class.
Immersed in luxury and riches, the courteous blue blood and refined heir apparent to Africa's prosperous kingdom of Zamunda, Prince Akeem, summons up the courage to reject an arranged marriage proposal on his twenty-first birthday. Bent on finding true love, the young aristocrat along with his trusted valet, Semmi, find themselves in the strange and unknown urban jungle of New York City's Queens, trying to mingle with their neighbours by posing as humble exchange students. More than anything in the world, the noble prince yearns to be loved for what he is, and not for his title; however, can he find his soulmate in the bustling Big Apple?