Release Date: September 2019 – Toronto International Film Festival; 10/4/19 – Netflix
Genre: Biography
Rating: R
Director: Craig Brewer
Studio(s): Netflix
Running Time: 118 mins.
Cast: Eddie Murphy (Rudy Ray Moore), Wesley Snipes (D’Urville Martin), Keegan-Michael Key (Jerry Jones), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nick), Chris Rock, Craig Robinson (Ben Taylor), Tituss Burgess (Theodore Toney), Mike Epps (Jimmy Lynch), Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Snoop Dogg.
Details: In Dolemite Is My Name, Murphy plays the comedian and singer Rudy Ray Moore, who was inspired to branch out and develop an alter-ego he could use on stage, a foul-mouthed pimp named Dolemite. When the character’s direction couldn’t take off on stage or in a comedy album, he took Dolemite to the screen and made a series of Blaxploitation movies starring his alternate persona.
“Dolemite is my name and f—in up motherf—ers is my game,” Murphy says while donning a garish suit and a afro wig. The Dolemite character ended up appearing in three films, Dolemite from 1975, followed by The Human Tornado and The Return of Dolemite. But this new biography specifically follows the rise of Moore as he struggled to bring the Dolemite character to the screen and make something that black audiences specifically could get behind. Source: The Wrap. Photo Source: IMDB.
Trailer:
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