Coming to America

Name: Coming to America
Director: John Landis
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1988

John Landis • 117 min • 1988

ComedyRomance

“This summer, Prince Akeem discovers America.”

Eddie Murphy, Shari Headley, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Eriq La Salle, John Amos

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Synopsis

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.