To date Murphy has never directed another movie.Harlem Nightsdid manage to garner a single Oscar nomination, Joe I. Tompkins for Best Costume Design (he lost to Phyllis Dalton forHenry V). Harlem Nights, for all its flaws, has enough moments of true hilarity to qualify as a minor comedy ...
Eddie Murphy‘s “Harlem Nights” is an uninspired cross between “The Cotton Club” and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does. The movie starsRichard Pryoras a Harlem speakeasy owner and Murphy as his ...
“Harlem Nights” (citywide) opens with something shocking for an Eddie Murphy movie: unintentional humor. In glamorous script, the credits announce that this is a Paramount presentation, in association with Eddie Murphy Productions . . . of an Eddie Murphy film, starring . . . Eddie Murphy. ...
Ellis, a 59-year-old Philadelphia public school teacher and department of recreation employee, says he still can’t believe the movie was made — especially with Howard playing him — even though he watched it being shot last year in Baton Rouge, La. “I’m excited, I’m happy, I’m ...