THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN

Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee, Joe Jon Baker,

Victoria Rowell, Grant Shaud, Kevin McCarthy,

Charles Dutton, James Garner

Hollywood Pictures; Directed by Jonathan Lynn

Rated R; 112 minutes; 1992

It's no longer business as usual in Washington D.C. when con artist Eddie Murphy pulls off his biggest hustle and gets elected to the U.S. Congress! Now, in this smash hit, he's creating hilarious laughs on a national scale as he sets out to do to Congress what Congress has been doing to everyone else.

REVIEWS

"A landslide of laughs. This is the Eddie Murphy of ‘TRADING PLACES’ and ‘48 HOURS.’ This is the Eddie Murphy we love."

— Joel Siegel, GOOD MORNING AMERICA

"The funniest Eddie Murphy yet. Murphy's charisma, his quick wit, his spur of the moment characters and comedy timing I don't think has ever been sharper."

— Chuck Henry, ABC-TV, LOS ANGELES

"The funniest picture Murphy has made in quite some time."

— Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Hilarious. THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN is an easy, breezy romp of a movie."

— Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES

"This is easily Murphy's best performance since the first ‘BEVERLY HILLS COP.’"

— Jack Mathews, NEW YORK NEWSDAY

"Inspired. It's a zany, irreverent, laugh-a-thon 10."

— Susan Granger, WICC/AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS

BLURBS

Your campus will laugh out loud at Eddie Murphy as a clever con man.