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 ...
It's not for one of Murphy's more serious turns in films like "Dreamgirls" or "Dolemite is My Name." The 1997 Oscars wouldn't have went down like they did if Ryan Reynolds was in charge.
Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden ...