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Release Date:
1 July 1992 (USA)
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Tagline:
A Player Who's About To Be Played.
Plot:
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss...
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1 win
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4 nominations
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Halle & Gabriel's Musical Date Night
(From PEOPLE.com. 28 July 2009, 3:00 AM, PDT)
Lady Gaga, You Are No Grace Jones
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(From PEOPLE.com. 28 July 2009, 3:00 AM, PDT)
Lady Gaga, You Are No Grace Jones
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Not sharp – but funny and quite sexy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eddie Murphy | ... | Marcus |
 | Robin Givens | ... | Jacqueline |
 | Halle Berry | ... | Angela |
| David Alan Grier | ... | Gerard |
 | Martin Lawrence | ... | Tyler |
| Grace Jones | ... | Strangé |
| Geoffrey Holder | ... | Nelson |
 | Eartha Kitt | ... | Lady Eloise |
 | Chris Rock | ... | Bony T |
| Tisha Campbell-Martin | ... | Yvonne (as Tisha Campbell) |
 | Lela Rochon | ... | Christie |
 | John Witherspoon | ... | Mr. Jackson |
 | Bebe Drake | ... | Mrs. Jackson (as Bebe Drake-Massey) |
| John Canada Terrell | ... | Todd |
| Leonard Jackson | ... | Chemist |
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Rated R for language and sexuality.
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117 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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New Zealand:M |
Norway:15 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-12 |
Germany:16 |
Netherlands:AL |
Singapore:M18 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:7 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Iceland:L
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First teaming of Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell-Martin. Soon after filming of 'Boomerang' wrapped, they were re-teamed in a pilot which eventually became the sitcom "Martin" (1992).
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Strange goes back and forth from French to Italian.
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Quotes:
Marcus Graham:
Check it. Like Jet magazine. This is my mack daddie vibe I am giving you. In all its splendor.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Muriel's Wedding (1994)
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Soundtrack:
Feel Like Funkin' It Up
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Marcus is a player who woos and beds women with great ease – but never settles down with any. When a company merger sees him working for the glamorous Jacqueline, he finds himself being played but still falling for her. However a relationship with the more stable Angela beckons if he can change his ways – but will Jackie allow him to leave her?
Part of the Eddie Murphy come back after the years of Harlem Nights, Golden Child, Another 48 hours, BHC 2 and other weak films. This and the Distinguished Gentleman saw him try to come back with a fresh approach. Boomerang is a good film – it uses Murphy's playa persona and turns it on it's head to good effect. True some of it is plain silly and it is quite predictable but it is pretty enjoyable and quite sexy too!
Murphy is good simply because he is the butt of many of the jokes via his playa image – plus it's good to see him be outdone after so many big-headed films. Givens is very good as the man-eating boss but I found Berry to be too sweet to be believed – but though she was the better looking. Lawrence and Rock are well used in small roles but Kitt and Grace are pointless and stupid cameos. Witherspoon is very funny and I personally love to see Lela Rochon in anything (and those aren't her feet).
Overall it may not win any awards or being shockingly innovative but it's fun, sexy and has a good bagfull of laughs in there.