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    The Distinguished Gentleman

    The Distinguished Gentleman
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Actors: Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, Victoria Rowell
    Studio: Walt Disney Video
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $9.99
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    Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
    Sales Rank: 11434

    Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
    Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
    Rating: R (Restricted)
    Region: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
    DVD Layers: 1
    DVD Sides: 1
    Picture Format: Letterbox
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 112 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6

    MPN: DISD17493D
    ISBN: 0788816233
    UPC: 717951003119
    EAN: 9786305428442
    ASIN: 6305428441

    Theatrical Release Date: December 4, 1992
    Release Date: November 16, 1999
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Product Description
    Small-time con artist thomas jefferson johnson pulls off the biggest hustle of his career by miraculously getting elected to the united states congress. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2003 Starring: Eddie Murphy Lane Smith Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R Director: Jonathan Lynn

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    "Mr. Murphy Goes to Washington." As a sly con man from Florida, Thomas Jefferson Johnson (a name he enjoys reciting), Murphy seems just about perfectly cast. And the notion that a crook would be drawn to Capitol Hill like a fly to honey is a cheap, cynical idea that could be milked for a few belly laughs. The chief bad guy, a greedy lobbyist aptly named Dick Dodge (Lane Smith), is a perfect, smarmy target, but the movie loses its cool and turns earnest and patriotic, striking a high-minded attitude that it has scarcely earned. It may have seemed a clever idea hiring a Brit, Jonathan Lynn (Clue) to direct, but he doesn't bring a fresh eye to the material. Sheryl Lee Ralph and Joe Don Baker bat cleanup. --David Chute


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    4 out of 5 stars "Jeff Johnson: the name you can trust"   December 31, 2008
    Nuisance (Miami)
    1 out of 1 found this review helpful

    The Distinguished Gentleman is one of those movies that was a little too smart for its audience. Because of this, it came and went in theaters. I think its one of Eddie Murphy's better movies.

    The story: Eddie Murphy plays Thomas Jefferson Johnson, a small-time crook that runs for Congress and wins. He ran with intentions of getting rich and left with intentions of helping the little people that get ran over by those corporate fat cats in the oval office. This being after he meets up a cancer-stricken girl that is a victim of the power lines over her school.

    Eddie Murphy is great as the slick con man and he looks like he wants to be in this movie not like these later flicks where he phones in his performance. Lane Smith is perfect as the corrupted chairman Dick Dodge and so is Joe Don Baker as Olaf Anderson. Victoria Rowell(who plays Celia Kirby) and Charles S. Dutton(who plays Elijah Hawkins) turn in some good performances too. I like how this movie targets the dont-give-a-damn mentality of all of these politicians in the White House. It was good in its satire even when the humor misses(rarely). The Distinguished Gentleman is underrated but is definitely recommended to the crowd that can see past their nose.



    4 out of 5 stars Eddie Murphy Goes to WASHINGTON DC!!   August 18, 2008
    MARCOLA (DALLAS, Tx)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    I Think this was a good comedy and it has a good storyline too.
    Eddie was at the top of his game and working his way to the top in WASHINGTON. Move over Obama my vote goes to Eddie for PRESIDENT!!
    I rate this move a 8 from 1to10!!



    4 out of 5 stars Mr. Murphy goes to Washington!   April 14, 2008
    andy8047 (Nokomis,Florida)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy goes to Washington,D.C. in this film directed by Jonathan Lynn(MY COUSIN VINNY). Murphy,over the years,starred in many films produced by Paramount,but this one is a property of Hollywood Pictures,a subsidiary of Buena Vista and a sister of Touchstone. Murphy plays a congressman who goes out of his way to frame a colleague of his who's a devious criminal. Murphy is either mildly vulgar or not vulgar at all unlike when he's on stage. Around the time of this 1992 theatrical release,Murphy began to clean his image,in the aspect of film roles. He remains profane on the stage today because fans expect that of him.


    5 out of 5 stars Fahrenheit-451 specialized to Politics   October 8, 2007
    Hibernating Hummingbird (Tempe, AZ USA)
    0 out of 2 found this review helpful

    Strategically "The Roots of Shallow Thinking" can be traced to the tragedy-of-the-commons, which the late Garrett Hardin ranted so elegantly about. Envy makes the world go round, so e.g. each individual male citizen is mainly concerned with buying a big house so as to win the girl, relative to his near neighbors. WHY SHOULD e.g. a male invest heavily in considering policies which benefit the-pork-barrel-as-a-whole, when those resources might have gone into getting the girl ?
    OF COURSE you won't find this deep analysis in the film, yet as a thought experiment everyone involved in the making of the film might have read these words each day before filming, this message seems "baked into" the film, so much better than being explicitly spelled out. The "baked in" message is so important - pure democracy being as they say "two wolves and a sheep deciding about lunch".



    4 out of 5 stars One of Eddie's Toppers   January 9, 2007
    Charlton Francisco (Willemstad, Curacao)
    0 out of 2 found this review helpful

    I really enjoyed this movie again. After having viewed it several times in the passed I decided that it must be in my collection. Charlton Francisco


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