Harlem Nights
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings
- Starring: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor
- Summary: He's Quick with a quip, Quick with a gun. And Quick with a scheme to keep mobsters from muscling in on the 1930's Harlem hot spot, Club Sugar Ray. (Paramount Pictures)
- Director: Eddie Murphy
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Crime
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Positive: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 11 out of 14
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50People may go to see Eddie Murphy once, twice, three or even six times in disposable movies like Harlem Nights, but if he wants to realize his potential he needs to work with a better writer and director than himself.
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38I don't mind that Nights is a potty-mouth benchmark; crude verbiage is appropriate to the leads, as well as the film's subject matter. This is, however, an amazingly mean two hours. Even the funniest gag involves Murphy's fatal shooting of three men. [17 Nov 1989, p.6D]
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25In Harlem Nights, Eddie Murphy continues his one-man war against the female gender. Those women he doesn't kill outright are punched, maimed and slugged with garbage cans. But apparently they deserve it-there isn't a single female character in the film who isn't a prostitute. [17 Nov 1989, p.A]
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20Self-serving, storyless tripe.
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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TJurist10This is a quality movie.
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