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In reply to the discussion: Actors who played multiple characters in a single movie? [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)8. The best Eddie Murphy movie with multiple roles for Murphy without a doubt....
Coming to America.
I loved the scenes in the Barber shope where both Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall played multiple characters. They also did multiple characters in the bar scene (Arsensio Hall as a woman flirting with Murphy and Hall was riotious) and the church fundraiser event.
"Coming to America" was such a great movie, hiliarious as hell and very fresh topic. I think it went to Murphy's head and suddenly he thought he could play multiple characters in all of his movies and people would buy it. Sometimes it worked (Like the first "Nutty Professor" but most of the time it's like 'Not that tired old crap again'. Multiple Murphy roles only work when the script is killer, more often than not the scripts suck
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