June 29 1988 

COMING TO AMERICA opens. Directed by John Landis, from a screenplay by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein. An uncommonly disengaged Eddie Murphy juggles TV sit-com cliches as pampered African prince who goes incognito in NYC to find suitable bride. Tiresome, laugh-starved concept inexplicably becomes year's biggest grosser. With Arsenio Hall, James EArl Jones and Shari Headley. 

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