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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $7.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 17 November, 1989 DVD Release : 29 January, 2002 |
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Harlem Nights description This is a supremely disappointing film, especially considering the talent involved. Indeed, the cast would seem to be the summit of African American comedians, starring the three most influential standups of the modern era: Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, and Eddie Murphy. Murphy obviously was paying respect to his elders when he cast them as his father and grandfather in this story of Harlem in the 1930s. Written and directed by Murphy, the plot involves gangsters and rival nightclub owners but doesn't add up. What's a particular shame is that, with three comics as funny as Murphy, Pryor, and Foxx, there are so few laughs and so much misogyny. Do you really want to watch Della Reese get shot in the foot to shut her up? That's the level of the humor here. --Marshall Fine |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Murphy and Pryor are an incredible pair! |
| Saturday Night Live alum and stand-up comic Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor,also a stand-up comic,deliver an incredible performance set in the 1940's,when guys wore suits and hats when out in public. This film is one of a multitude of Paramount films Murphy did. Pryor did buddy films with Gene Wilder previously(and one subsequently),but no one can imagine Wilder doing a film like this,set in a New York town that was mostly populated by blacks. Della Reese,late of CBS's Touched By An Angel,even has audiences cracking up over her schtick. Pryor influenced Murphy's brand of humor,neither's is 100% clean like those of some other comedians I could name. Pryor's film career didn't last too much longer after this film because the multiple sclerosis victim became confined to a wheelchair in the early 90's. Despite the paralysis,Pryor occasionally still did comedy concerts. Sadly,the good Lord took away 65-year-old Peoria,Illinois-born Pryor on December 10,2005. Murphy continues his film career to this day,but in mostly non-profane,family-oriented films. | |
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