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This summer, Prince Akeem discovers America.
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.
$30,000,000
$288,752,301
June 29, 1988
Eddie Murphy Productions, Paramount Pictures
82 people
Eddie Murphy
Prince Akeem / Clarence / Randy Watson / Saul
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Shari Headley
Lisa McDowell
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Arsenio Hall
Semmi / Extremely Ugly Girl / Morris / Reverend Brown
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Madge Sinclair
Queen Aoleon
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Samuel L. Jackson
Hold-Up Man
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Allison Dean
Patrice McDowell
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John Amos
Cleo McDowell
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
Boy Getting Haircut
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Vanessa Bell Calloway
Imani Izzi
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Calvin Lockhart
Colonel Izzi
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James Earl Jones
King Jaffe Joffer
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Eriq La Salle
Darryl Jenks
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