#eddie-murphy

#eddie-murphy

Being Eddie, a new Netflix documentary on Eddie Murphy, isn't his best movie. It isn't his worst. It's something to justify signing the 64-year-old to a $70m production deal in hopes that he might finally be moved to return to his standup comedy roots and deliver the long-anticipated follow-up to his seminal 1987 special Raw. With access to the subject and his archival material bought and paid for, Being Eddie is free to focus on other aspects of Murphy's life,

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