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Coming to America (1988) [R]

Release Date:
June 29, 1988

Original Title:
Coming to America

Alternate Titles:
El príncipe de Zamunda
El príncipe de Zamunda: buscando a la mujer ideal
Hoshi no Ôji Nyûyôku e iku
O prigkipas tis Zamounta
O prigkipas tis Zamunda
O pringipas tis Zamunda
Prints Zamundast
Um Príncipe em Nova York
王子录妃记
王子选妃记

Genres:
Comedy | Romance

Production Companies:
Eddie Murphy Productions
Paramount Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  BR: L  DE: 12  DK: 7  ES: APTA  FI: S  FR: U  GB: 15  GR: 12  HU: 18  IE: 15  IT: T  NO: 12  PL: 18  RO: AP  RU: 6+  SE: 7  US: R 

Runtime: 117

This summer, Prince Akeem discovers America.

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An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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Additional Second Assistant Director:
Charles Brescia

Art Direction:
Christopher Nowak
Richard B. Lewis

Assistant Art Director:
Carole Lee Cole

Assistant Camera:
Madelyn Most

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician:
Ed Cooper

Assistant Costume Designer:
Kelly Kimball

Assistant Editor:
John Haggar

Assistant Hairstylist:
William Howard

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Marie Carter

Assistant Property Master:
Stan Cockerell

Assistant Sound Editor:
Spike Allison Hooper

Associate Producer:
David Sosna

Boom Operator:
Louis Sabat

Carpenter:
Marc Fambro

Casting:
Jackie Burch

Casting Assistant:
Ferne Cassel

Chief Lighting Technician:
John W. DeBlau

Choreographer:
Paula Abdul

Color Timer:
Bob Noland

Construction Coordinator:
Jerry Fitzpatrick

Construction Foreman:
William Apperson

Costume Design:
Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Costume Supervisor:
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck

Craft Service:
Eddie Jones

Director:
John Landis

Director of Photography:
Sol Negrin
Woody Omens

Dolly Grip:
Jon Falkengren

Driver:
Patrick Hogan

Editor:
George Folsey Jr.
Malcolm Campbell

Electrician:
Richie Ford

Executive Producer:
Mark Lipsky
Leslie Belzberg
Eddie Murphy

Extras Casting Assistant:
Rae Lockett

First Assistant Camera:
Ken Fisher

First Assistant Director:
David Sosna

First Company Grip:
Dennis Gamiello

Foley Mixer:
Dean Drabin

Generator Operator:
Joseph Banks

Greensman:
Philip C. Hurst

Grip:
Bruce Atwater

Location Assistant:
Chris Schutsky

Location Manager:
Charles Miller

Makeup Artist:
Rolf John Keppler
Rick Baker

Makeup Effects:
Rick Baker

Music Editor:
Daniel Allan Carlin

Original Music Composer:
Nile Rodgers

Producer:
George Folsey Jr.
Robert D. Wachs

Production Accountant:
Janet L. Wattles

Production Assistant:
Martha Appel

Production Coordinator:
Terry Ladin

Production Design:
Richard Macdonald

Production Secretary:
Ginny Warner

Property Master:
Gregg H. Bilson

Rigging Grip:
Michael T. James

Scenic Artist:
Edward Garzero

Screenplay:
David Sheffield
Barry W. Blaustein

Second Assistant Camera:
Joseph Cosko Jr.

Second Assistant Director:
Richard Patrick

Second Company Grip:
Brian Fitzsimons

Second Second Assistant Director:
Tomaz Remec

Set Decoration:
Dan von Blomberg
Cheryal Kearney

Set Designer:
R. Gilbert Clayton

Set Dressing Artist:
Gerald DeTitta

Set Medic:
Greg Knapp

Sound Editor:
Mike Dobie

Sound Mixer:
William B. Kaplan

Sound Recordist:
Frank Graziadei

Special Effects Supervisor:
Danny Cangemi

Still Photographer:
Bruce McBroom

Story:
Eddie Murphy

Story Editor:
Brian Stewart

Stunt Coordinator:
John Sherrod

Stunt Double:
Carlton Holder

Stunts:
Lindell Blake

Supervising ADR Editor:
James Beshears

Supervising Sound Editor:
Paul Timothy Carden

Swing:
Richard Evans

Transportation Coordinator:
Cary Kelley

Unit Production Manager:
Michael Tadross

Unit Publicist:
Saul Kahan

Utility Stunts:
John Ashby

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Bill Christians

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