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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Marcus Graham is a successful young marketing executive who has never lacked for attention from women. The cocky ladies' man views each new conquest as another notch on the holster of his oversized ego. But one day the tables are turned, and he falls for a high-powered female executive who treats him the same way he's been treating women for the last fifteen years. It's not so fun to be on the other side of objectification and rejection. And Marcus soon finds himself becoming a quivering bundle of insecurities. The question is whether he will learn enough from the experience to see that true love has been right under his nose all along.
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A player who is about to be played.
New York marketing exec Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy) is a wolf in chic clothing, a ladies' man dedicated to life, liberty and the happiness of pursuit. But what goes around comes around in Eddie Murphy's clever romantic comedy Boomerang. Murphy, in a performance loaded with trademark charm and wit, is suave go-getter Graham. If you've got the curves, he's got the angles… until he meets a smart, stylish career woman who treats men the same way he treats women. How Graham copes with the experience and what he learns from it spark this entertaining romp... Catch a Boomerang - it's great fun!
(15 votes)
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