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Hilarious | Christmas
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Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | 1983 | Eddie
Best Music Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score | 1984 | Elmer
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1984
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1984 | Eddie
Best Screenplay Original | 1984 | Herschel
Best Foreign Director Regista del Miglior Film Straniero | 1984 | John
Budget 15,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 90,404,800 USD
Ralph Bellamy (Randolph) and Don Ameche (Mortimer) make cameo appearances in Coming to America (1988) as the same characters; the two are now homeless, and Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) gives them a large amount of money to get them back off the streets.
In 2010, as part of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act, which was to regulate financial markets, a rule was included which barred anyone from using secret inside information to corner markets, similar to what the Duke brothers tried to do in the movie. Since the movie inspired this rule, it has since become known as the Eddie Murphy Rule.
Eddie Murphy later admitted that on the floor of the commodities exchange in the final scene, he only followed the script; he had no idea what was going on, as he found commodities trading incredibly confusing.
This was Ralph Bellamy's ninety-ninth film, and Don Ameche's forty-ninth. This was Eddie Murphy's second film, and he joked: "Between the three of us, we've made one hundred fifty movies!"
(at around 1h 50 mins) Don Ameche's strong religious convictions made him uncomfortable with swearing. This proved to be a problem for the scene at the end of the movie, where he had to shout out "Fuck him!" to a group of Wall Street executives. When he did act out the scene, it had to be done in one take, because Ameche refused to do a second one.
"[last lines] Louis: Looking good, Billy Ray! Billy Ray: Feeling good, Louis!"
"Louis Winthorpe III: I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. I lost my job, I lost my house, Penelope hated me, and it was all because of this terrible, awful Negro!"
