Eddie Murphy
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Language
English
Description
Two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) join the ranks of the unemployed and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads decide to open their own day care facility, "Daddy Day Care," which boasts some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of tending the kids. As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a hilarious...
3) Mr. Church
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Language
English
Description
Set in a time when social boundaries were far more rigid, Henry Joseph Church takes on the role of surrogate father to a young girl as she struggles through the loss of her only present parent.
4) Holy Man
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Language
English
Description
A stressed-out senior executive at the Good Buy home shopping channel, Ricky Hayman (Goldblum) is praying for a miracle that will lift the network's lousy ratings and save his job.
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Language
English
Description
One-sixth the gravity. 100% of the fun. That's the way things are on the moon when Eddie Murphy headlines The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Murphy plays the title role in a high-flying action comedy directed by Ron Underwood (Tremors, City Slickers). The year is 2087, and the future isn't what it used to be now that mobsters (including Joe Pantoliano) are muscling in on Nash's Club Pluto. But Pluto isn't ready to kiss his assets goodbye. With the help...
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Language
English
Description
African Americans have made huge leaps in the film industry, both in front of the camera and behind it, and are finally being recognized for their work. This film explores the journey African Americans had to take within cinema to get to where they are now. This film touches upon topics of racially insensitive films that perpetuated racial myths, unjust representation on screen, African American films vanishing into obscurity despite their merit,...
10) Trading places
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The rich Duke Brothers wager on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and would a prig like Winthorpe turn to a life of crime if he were to lose it all.
11) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywoods biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Murphy stars as shy, kind, brilliant "calorically challenged" genetics professor Sherman Klump, who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of a beautiful faculty member. His experimental fat-reducing serum creates a slimmed down alter-ego, with startling comical results.
13) The golden child
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Murphy goes to the rescue of a child with mystical powers who has been abducted by an evil cult.
14) 48 hrs
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.
16) I-spy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Alex is a federal intelligence agent who has been assigned to find a weapon which has gone missing: a stealth fighter jet which can turn invisible to the human eye. Alex learns a rogue agent has sold the jet to a powerful and unscrupulous underground arms dealer. It seems Gundars is a rabid boxing fan, so in order to get inside his organization, Scott recruits a longtime middleweight champion whose ego nearly exceeds his talent in the ring. The two...
17) A thousand words
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fast-talking Jack McCall says whatever it takes to close a deal. After stretching the truth with a spiritual guru, he suddenly finds his life depending on a magical tree with 1,000 leaves, one for every word he has left. Now Jack's got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he's a goner.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Longing for the days when he was a 'real ogre, ' Shrek signs a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to get his roar back, but turns his world upside down in the process. Donkey suddenly can't remember his best friend, Fiona is now a tough warrior princess, and Puss in Boots is one fat cat! Together, they have just 24 hours to reverse the contract and restore happily forever after.
20) Daddy day care
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious childrens academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.