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COMING TO AMERICA

Air Date/Released Wednesday, June 29, 1988
Station/Studio Paramount Pictures / Eddie Murphy Prod.

The African nation Zamunda’s Prince Akeem rejects his pre-arranged marriage, and heads for America with his valet Semmi to find a true love in NYC. Posing as exchange students, the two try to fit in with their adopted Queens neighbors as Akeem searches for his soulmate.

Lisa McDowell, Akeem’s hope-for love, discovers his true identity and runs away from him. As he trails her into the subway, shown is a movie poster on the tube wall promoting SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY. Among the stars of that “film” is the name Moe Howard.


The fictional film SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY was the title of an unfinished, early 1970s screenplay by director John Landis. Becoming an in-joke of Landis’, the title cameos on posters and marquees in most of his films.

Cast: Eddie Murphy (Prince Akeem, Clarence, Saul, Randy Watson), James Earl Jones (King Jaffe Joffer), Arsenio Hall (Semmi, Morris, Ugly Girl, Rev. Brown), Shari Headley (Lisa McDowell), John Amos (Cleo McDowell), Allison Dean (Patrice McDowell), Madge Sinclair (Queen Aoleon), Paul Bates (Oha), Louis Anderson (Maurice), Calvin Lockhart (Col. Izzi), Vanessa Bell Calloway (Imani Izzi), Eriq LaSalle (Darryl Jenks), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Basketball game vendor), Samuel L. Jackson (Hold-up man), Clint Smith (Sweets), Ray Murphy (Stu), Dottie (Dottie Dog), Arthur Adams (Mr. Jenks), Loni Kaye Harkless (Mrs. Jenks), Montrose Hagins (Grandma Jenks), Don Ameche (Mortimer Duke), Ralph Bellamy (Randolph Duke), Sheila Johnson (Lady-in-waiting), Frankie Faison (Landlord), Garcelle Beauvais, Feather, Stephanie Simon (Rose bearers), Raymond D. Turner (T-shirt vendor), Billi Gordon, Mary Bond Davis (Large women), Jake Steinfeld, Michael Tadross (Cab drivers), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Boy getting haircut), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Street hustler), Paulette Banoza (Soul Glo woman), Clyde Risley Jones (Soul Glo man), Janette Colon (Fresh Peaches), Vanessa Colon (Sugar Cube), Dorian DeMichele (Viola), Patricia Matthews (Devil woman), David Sosna (Cartier delivery man), Mary Young (Stuck-up girl), Carla Earle (Tough girl), Lisa Gumora (Kinky girl), June Boykins (Strange woman), Mindora Mimms, Cynthia Finkley (Awareness women), Gloria Ellington, Bianca McEachin (Awareness contestants), Elaine Kagan (Telegraph lady), Birdie M. Hale (Elderly passenger), Jim Abrahams (Face on cutting room floor), Karen Owens, Sharon Owens (Ex-Siamese twins, dancers), Felicia Taylor, Midori (Bathers), Victoria Dillard (Bather, dancer), Monique Mannen (Boring girl, dancer), Tonja Rivers, Tobe Hooper (Party guests), Steve White (Subway man), Helen Hanft (Subway lady), Angel Ramirez Jr. (Subway patron), Roy Milton Davis (Homeless man), Karl Denson (Sax player), Alison Gordy (Blonde hooker, bag lady), Vincent Harta (Shopkeeper), David Hummel (Airline passenger), Nick Savage (Toothbrusher), Leah Aldridge, Aurorah Allain, Paula Brown, Dwayne Chattman, Stephanie Clark, Robin L. Dimension, Shaun Earl, Eric L. Ellis, Sharon Ferrol-Young, Eric D. Henderson, Gigi Hunter, Debra Johnson, Tanya Lynne Lee, Jimmy Locust, Donna M. Perkins, Dionne Rockhold, Gina Consuela Rose, Randolph Scott, Robbin Tasha-Ford, Jerald Vincent, Evan Williams, Stan Rodarte (Dancers), Scott Shepherd (Spectator), Lindell Blake, Alex Brown, Andy Duppin, Peter Hock, Carlton Holder, John Sherrod, John Ashby (Stunts)

Crew: John Landis (Director), Leslie Belzberg, Mark Lipsky (Executive Producers), Eddie Murphy (Story), David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein (Screenplay), George Folsey Jr., Robert D. Wachs, David Sosna (Producers), Woody Omens (Director of Photography), Malcolm Campbell, George Folsey Jr. (Film Editors)
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