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THE PRINCE OF QUEENS

n his 21st birthday, a pampered African prince rejects the fiancée his parents have chosen for him and flies to New York to find a woman he genuinely wants to marry. So begins , a 1988 romantic comedy that infuses the ancient template of the fairytale with Eddie Murphy’s fish-out-of-water, character-comic sensibility. The crown prince of Hollywood at the time, alumnus Murphy followed the colossal success of by reuniting with s director John Landis to write the film’s story and star as its

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