DVD : The Distinguished Gentleman
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MURPHY,EDDIE
EAN: 9786305428442
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788816233
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 13989
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 04, 1992
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Comedy superstar Eddie Murphy (BOWFINGER, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR) brings down the house in THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, the hilarious new comedy hit about a small-time con man who runs for Congress -- and miraculously wins! As Thomas Jeffferson Johnson, Murphy hustles his way to the big time and wins an elected seat in the U.S. Congress. But that's only the beginning -- with the perks and power of his new position, Murphy cons for cash and doesn't have to break the law to bamboozle the big bucks! You can be sure you'll love it when Eddie Murphy goes to Washington!
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"Mr. Murphy Goes to Washington." As a sly con man from Florida, Thomas Jefferson Johnson (a name he enjoys reciting), Murphy seems just about perfectly cast. And the notion that a crook would be drawn to Capitol Hill like a fly to honey is a cheap, cynical idea that could be milked for a few belly laughs. The chief bad guy, a greedy lobbyist aptly named Dick Dodge (Lane Smith), is a perfect, smarmy target, but the movie loses its cool and turns earnest and patriotic, striking a high-minded attitude that it has scarcely earned. It may have seemed a clever idea hiring a Brit, Jonathan Lynn (Clue) to direct, but he doesn't bring a fresh eye to the material. Sheryl Lee Ralph and Joe Don Baker bat cleanup. --David Chute
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The Distinguished Gentleman is one of those movies that was a little too smart for its audience. Because of this, it came and went in theaters. I think its one of Eddie Murphy's better movies.
The story: Eddie Murphy plays Thomas Jefferson Johnson, a small-time crook that runs for Congress and wins. He ran with intentions of getting rich and left with intentions of helping the little people that get ran over by those corporate fat cats in the oval office. This being after he meets up a cancer-stricken girl that is a victim of the power lines over her school.
Eddie Murphy is great as the slick con man and he looks like he wants to be in this movie not like these later flicks where he phones in his performance. Lane Smith is perfect as the corrupted chairman Dick Dodge and so is Joe Don Baker as Olaf Anderson. Victoria Rowell(who plays Celia Kirby) and Charles S. Dutton(who plays Elijah Hawkins) turn in some good performances too. I like how this movie targets the dont-give-a-damn mentality of all of these politicians in the White House. It was good in its satire even when the humor misses(rarely). The Distinguished Gentleman is underrated but is definitely recommended to the crowd that can see past their nose.
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I Think this was a good comedy and it has a good storyline too.
Eddie was at the top of his game and working his way to the top in WASHINGTON. Move over Obama my vote goes to Eddie for PRESIDENT!!
I rate this move a 8 from 1to10!!
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Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy goes to Washington,D.C. in this film directed by Jonathan Lynn(MY COUSIN VINNY). Murphy,over the years,starred in many films produced by Paramount,but this one is a property of Hollywood Pictures,a subsidiary of Buena Vista and a sister of Touchstone. Murphy plays a congressman who goes out of his way to frame a colleague of his who's a devious criminal. Murphy is either mildly vulgar or not vulgar at all unlike when he's on stage. Around the time of this 1992 theatrical release,Murphy began to clean his image,in the aspect of film roles. He remains profane on the stage today because fans expect that of him.
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Strategically "The Roots of Shallow Thinking" can be traced to the tragedy-of-the-commons, which the late Garrett Hardin ranted so elegantly about. Envy makes the world go round, so e.g. each individual male citizen is mainly concerned with buying a big house so as to win the girl, relative to his near neighbors. WHY SHOULD e.g. a male invest heavily in considering policies which benefit the-pork-barrel-as-a-whole, when those resources might have gone into getting the girl ?
OF COURSE you won't find this deep analysis in the film, yet as a thought experiment everyone involved in the making of the film might have read these words each day before filming, this message seems "baked into" the film, so much better than being explicitly spelled out. The "baked in" message is so important - pure democracy being as they say "two wolves and a sheep deciding about lunch".
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I really enjoyed this movie again. After having viewed it several times in the passed I decided that it must be in my collection. Charlton Francisco
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starring: Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, Victoria Rowell
directed by: Jonathan Lynn
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MURPHY,EDDIE
EAN: 9786305428442
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788816233
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 13989
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 04, 1992
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