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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792181873
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792181875
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 5118
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1992
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Eddie Murphy makes a graceless debut as a romantic lead in this comedy from Reginald Hudlin. Murphy stars as a ladies man for whom the tables turn when he suddenly finds himself taken for granted by a lover (Robin Givens). Meanwhile, the platonic friend (Halle Berry) whom Murphy regularly visits is obviously--to the viewer, anyway--the woman he's supposed to be with. The absurdly long film is filled out with some fairly crude humor, such as the sight of Geoffrey Holder taking a whiff of Grace Jones's underwear. Yet Hudlin and Murphy also strain for a veneer of elegance and sophistication. Wanting to play it both ways, they end up with nothing. But there are several good sequences where Murphy is quite funny just being Murphy, such as his explanation to Berry of how you can tell which characters in an old episode of Star Trek are destined to die. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Just try making that out of a cola nut
Boomerang was not a huge success for Eddie Murphy, but I think it is a very entertaining film that unfortunately was too racy to appeal to a family humor audience, but not raw enough for the raunchy crowd. As a romantic comedy, it is perfectly adequate, but what really made it entertaining for me were the incredibly talented women.
Legendary Diva Eartha Kitt has done it all. She was born in South Carolina, but she sang and danced her way out of poverty, and by the 50's she had performed with the Katherine Dunham troupe on a European tour, soloed at a Paris night club, and was the toast of the Continent. Orson Welles called her "the most exciting girl in the world". Kitt was virtually exiled from the United States after making anti-Viet Nam war statements during a White House luncheon with Lady Bird Johnson in 1968. However, she was welcomed back to the White House by Jimmy Carter who took office in January of 1977. She played Cat Woman #2, after Cat Woman #1, Julie Newmar, on the Batman TV Show. Eartha Kitt was a good friend of actor James Dean. She had a sexy Christmas hit song with "Santa Baby". She was a guest on the very first Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and her Raving Diva came out, as she berated the poor Conan as a talentless hack. Her name can be seen on a Marquee in the famous cult film Plan 9 From Outer Space.
In Boomerang, she plays Lady Eloise, the figure head for a cosmetics company. For a lady of 65, she is surprisingly sexy, and she has great legs.
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Rating:  - Eddie's last good film before his nineties slump
Boomerang was Murphy's last good film before he hit his slump. The film directed by Reginald Hudlin gave Murphy the chance to spit many one-liners and the chance for us to see two people who would be big later; Martin Lawerence and Halle Berry. If you've never seen this film check it out for some good laughs.
Rating: - Ladies' man Eddie is looking mighty smooth!
OK,here's another Paramount film starring Eddie Murphy as a suave,charming ladies man scoring with women for sure. Great support from Halle Berry(WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE?),Tisha Campbell and Chris Rock(TV's Saturday Night Live).
Rating:  - Eddie what happened to your career?
Martin Lawrence, pass the broccoli spears. Are you kidding with this crap? This movie and others like it, catering to the lowest form of sterotypes, just fuels the ignorance fire. How does Martin Lawrence keep getting movie roles, he is such a one note actor. And it seems like Eddie Murphy's career is in reverse, these are the type of movies that actors do early in their career's, forgetable stinkers. There must be better material out there somewhere, please find it.
Rating: - Boomerang DVD
Great Movie! I am glad to have this as part of my collection.
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