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FilmMovie ReviewsDolemite Is My Name — 2019

Dolemite Is My Name

2019

1h 58m

Biography/Comedy/Drama

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Cast

Eddie Murphy (Rudy)Keegan-Michael Key (Jerry)Mike Epps (Jimmy Lynch)Craig Robinson (Ben)Tituss Burgess (Theodore Toney)Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Lady Reed)Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nick)Snoop Dogg (Roj)Ron Cephas Jones (Ricco)Barry Shabaka Henley (Demond)T.I. (Walter Crane)Luenell (Aunt)Tasha Smith (Jimmy's Wife)Wesley Snipes (D'Urville)Chris Rock (Bobby Vale)Aleksandar Filimonovic (Joseph Bihari)Ivo Nandi (Julius Bihari)Michael Peter Bolus (Lester Bihari)

Director

Craig Brewer

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Synopsis

Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.

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