Coming to America | |
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Directed by | John Landis |
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Story by | Eddie Murphy |
Produced by | George Folsey Jr. Robert D. Wachs |
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Cinematography | Sol Negrin Woody Omens |
Edited by | Malcolm Campbell George Folsey Jr. |
Music by | Nile Rodgers |
Production company | Eddie Murphy Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $36 million[1] |
Box office | $288.8–350 million[1][2][3][4] |
Coming to America is a 1988 comedy movie directed by John Landis. It is about an African prince who comes to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry. It stars Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Ralph Bellamy, and Don Ameche. It was released on June 29, 1988. A sequel, Coming 2 America, was released in December 2020.