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- The movie was initially panned by critics, who lambasted its amateurish production values, semi-coherent story line and nonprofessional acting. But, much like the character at its center, “Dolemite” attracted a cult following, and eventually grossed $12 million in theaters ($58 million in today’s dollars).
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Performer Rudy Ray Moore develops an outrageous character named Dolemite, who becomes an underground sensation and star of a kung-fu, anti-establisment film that could make or break Moore.
- (237)
- Craig Brewer
- R
- Eddie Murphy
Oct 2, 2019 · “Dolemite Is My Name” is a typical biopic buoyed by its unrelenting hilarity, its affection for its subject and commitment to the time and place it is set. And yet, something still nags at me about its lead performance.
Dolemite Is My Name: Directed by Craig Brewer. With Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson. 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.
- (65K)
- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Craig Brewer
- 2019-10-25
The movie is a beautifully portrayed story of grit and having the support of a few good people around you. The writers and Murphy showed Rudy Ray Moore as a real entertainer in that he did not care about displaying his ego to the audience - he just wanted to deliver what he knew the people enjoyed.
Sep 8, 2019 · A breezy, joyful, balls-to-the-wall biopic about the making of Moore’s signature masterpiece, “ Dolemite Is My Name ” may not detonate with the same earthshaking force as the film that inspired it,...
It's above all a funny movie, but being Eddie Murphy's first R-rated movie since 1999, it's also a realistic portrayal of both 1970s L.A. and the struggles of being a black filmmaker at the time. The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
Oct 2, 2019 · Directed by Craig Brewer from a script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (with Murphy as a producer), “Dolemite Is My Name” sticks to the surface of a rambunctious, sometimes rousing...
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