Coming to America

Coming to America
1988ComedyRomance117 mins
★★★★★

Plot

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 f... read more

  • John Landis

    Director

  • Eddie Murphy

    Story

  • David Sheffield

    Screenplay

  • Barry W. Blaustein

    Screenplay

  • Brian Stewart

    Story Editor

  • Sol Negrin

    Director of Photography

  • Woody Omens

    Director of Photography

  • George Folsey Jr.

    Editor

  • Malcolm Campbell

    Editor

  • Eddie Murphy

    Prince Akeem / Clarence / Randy Watson / Saul

  • Arsenio Hall

    Semmi / Extremely Ugly Girl / Morris / Reverend Brown

  • James Earl Jones

    King Jaffe Joffer

  • John Amos

    Cleo McDowell

  • Shari Headley

    Lisa McDowell

  • Frankie Faison

    Landlord

  • Louie Anderson

    Maurice

  • Eriq La Salle

    Darryl Jenks

  • Allison Dean

    Patrice McDowell

  • Madge Sinclair

    Queen Aoleon

  • Paul Bates

    Oha

  • Samuel L. Jackson

    Hold-Up Man

  • Ralph Bellamy

    Randolph Duke / Homeless Man #1 (uncredited)

  • Don Ameche

    Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)

  • Vanessa Bell Calloway

    Imani Izzi

  • Calvin Lockhart

    Colonel Izzi

  • Garcelle Beauvais

    Rose Bearer #3

  • Cuba Gooding Jr.

    Boy Getting Haircut

  • Birdie M. Hale

    Elderly Passenger

  • Vondie Curtis-Hall

    Basketball Game Vendor

  • Clyde Jones

    Soul Glo Man

  • Jim Abrahams

    Face on Cutting Room Floor

  • Feather

    Rose Bearer

  • Stephanie Simon

    Rose Bearer

  • Victoria Dillard

    Bather / Dancer

  • Felicia Taylor

    Bather

  • Midori

    Bather

  • Sheila Johnson

    Lady-in-Waiting

  • Jake Steinfeld

    Cab Driver

  • Clint Smith

    Sweets

  • Uncle Ray Murphy

    Stu

  • Ruben Santiago-Hudson

    Street Hustler

  • Paulette Banoza

    Soul Glo Woman

  • Patricia Matthews

    Devil Woman

  • Mary Bond Davis

    Big Stank Woman

  • Carla Earle

    Tough Girl

  • Karen Owens

    Ex-Siamese Twin / Dancer

  • Sharon Owens

    Ex-Siamese Twin / Dancer

  • Lisa Gumora

    Kinky Girl

  • June Boykins

    Strange Woman

    • 2.0

    Runtime

    117 minutes

    Released

    1988-06-29

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Paramount

    Eddie Murphy Productions

    Sound

  • Nile Rodgers

    Original Music Composer

    • Updated

    716 days ago

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