September 23, 2009
This film has its funny moments but overall it?s forgettable.
Charles S. Dutton, Eddie Murphy, Grant Shaud
"Mr. Murphy Goes to Washington." As a sly con man from Florida, Thomas Jefferson Johnson (a name he enjoys reciting), Murphy seems just about perfectly cast. And the notion that a crook would be drawn...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 16, 1999
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April 7, 2009Not bad. A lot funnier than I was expecting. It reminds you just how funny Eddie Murphy can be and how far he's fallen.
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October 22, 2008I saw this when I was in the 8th grade and didn't understand what was going on. At the time I thought it was my not-matured brain. But looking back, it's probably the movie.
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April 9, 2008This began a horrible run of movies for Murphy. The movies just became too self-indulgent after this.
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