Coming to America (1988)
Rating: 6.9/10
Duration: 117 min
Year: 1988
Director(s): John Landis
Description:
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson as Hold-Up Man
- Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem / Clarence / Randy Watson / Saul
- James Earl Jones as King Jaffe Joffer
- John Amos as Cleo McDowell
- Eriq La Salle as Darryl Jenks
- Frankie Faison as Landlord
- Calvin Lockhart as Colonel Izzi
- Vanessa Bell Calloway as Imani Izzi
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Basketball Game Vendor
- Paul Bates as Oha
- Shari Headley as Lisa McDowell
- Arsenio Hall as Semmi / Extremely Ugly Girl / Morris / Reverend Brown
- Madge Sinclair as Queen Aoleon
- Allison Dean as Patrice McDowell
- Louie Anderson as Maurice
