After the success of his show Eddie Murphy Raw and his foray as a screenwriter in Beverly Hills Cop II , Eddie Murphy wrote the original script and manages to complete his project, directed by John Landis. The reputation of a prince New York will be worldwide.
Coming to America - John Landis (1988)
Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is bored in his kingdom Zamunda. In addition to his 21 years, his royal parents (James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair) have expected him to marry a girl he has ever seen. With his servant and friend Semmes (Arsenio Hall), they decide to leave the kingdom and go to the United States, in Queens, New York, the Prince wants to find a woman who loves him for who he is , not for what he has. 
They take a gloomy apartment in Queens, and gradually discover America. Rakeem one day sees the beautiful Lisa, he falls in love. To approach it, and Akeem Semm working in fast food from his father, Cleo McDowell (John Amos). But they are mere employees, and Lisa is engaged to the beautiful and pretentious Daryll (Eriq La Salle) ... 
Murphy's fame allows him to apply to the scenario of his films. And there is a difference in size since the plot is now in the African American community. 
Recalling the influence of Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall play several secondary characters (and as Richard Pryor in Which Way Is Up? , they embody the old or pastors). The most interesting of these incarnations is an old Jewish dragging the barbershop. In his spiritual father Pryor, Eddie Murphy also borrows the name "Zamunda. Directed by John Landis very good (to whom we owe such blockbusters The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London Trading Places , bad Cop Beverly Hills 3 , and of course clips Thriller and Black or White King of Pop, Michael Jackson), the film remains ambiguous. On the one hand, he enrolled in a lineage of some African-American cinema, with winks and supported strong cultural marker, a pretty impressive cast. Yet there are persistent traits peculiar to Hollywood stereotypes like the invisibility of sexual relations and representation of Africa and Africans
directly after the worst American fantasies and generally colonialists. Listed secondary casting, you are entitled to Eriq La Salle (ER Benton ) Who plays a delicious arrogant young first, brief appearance by Cuba Gooding Jr. (for his first role on the big screen), Paula Brown, Tanya Lynne Lee. In those years, there is almost no African-American cast without Samuel L. Jackson, this film does not exception.
It then finds the stars of going about "soul cinema":
James Earl Jones, Madge Sinclair, John Amos (who, in the series Roots, Kunta Kinte incarnation, whose nickname of the old barbershop affublent affectionately Prince Akeem), and one-too-short stint with Calvin Lockhart. Technical side, have also proved their class in the productions of Soul 70s: the assembly is ensured by George Folsey Jr. (who, like Trading Places - produced the film), hair by Robert L. Stevenson and makeup by Rick Baker (who had been seen as a gorilla in The Thing With Two Heads ) that allows real transformations of the two main actors.
Martin Lawrence was working on a remake, Return To Africa, whose central character, a laborer from Queens, learns he is heir to an African kingdom ... 
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