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Coming to America
UNITED STATES · 1988

Coming to America

John Landis
fish out of water royal disguise cross-cultural romance immigrant experience fish out of water comedy
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Synopsis

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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