Stream it now Harlem Nights 1989

 

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Dude this movie ROCKED. Vera was a BADASS MOTHAFUCKA! Loved her as the Madam and how she talked about Sunshine. Strong chick, love it! This movie was action packed and HILARIOUS. Good stuff. I remember just walking into a room and this was on and I was so glad it was.

foxx, pryor and murphy!!! elegant club setting, period music by herbie hancock doing basi. and funny. this will remind u of "the sting" but funny through and through.

great acting by danny aiello he is the perfect asshole cop with a couple of the funniest scene stealers.
red is red is red classic as the dice shot caller. and do we love sunshine, yes we do! all hail queen della reese. kudos to comedic minimalism done by robin harris and charlie murphy
this movie has sooo much talent esembled belinda tolbert, stan shaw, jasmine guy, arsenio hall, ji-tu chumbuka, nigel miguel lela roshon thomas mikal ford and michael lerner.
get some popcorn bring in some other greats and have a comedy extravganza!

Nowhere as bad as it's knockers want us to believe. We just don't like funny men doing slow semi serious. I like it.

HARLEM NIGHTS

Definitely a great way to pass the time if you are in need of a laugh.

Murphy's sole directing venture is a generationally broad comedy/caper set in Prohibition-era Harlem. The warmth and magic from Pryor, Murphy, Foxx, Della Reese, Stan Shaw, and Arsenio Hall feels like a long awaited family reunion of shit-talking. In contrast, the costumes and sets are ellegantly designed, creating an enjoyable balance of colorful profanity and class. Harlem Nights also features a well-plotted crime story, making way for magnificent character work from Micheal Lerner and Danny Aiello. It's a light-hearted movie with a few scenes of true comedic genius worth watching over and over again.

If you watch this movie expecting anything else than a comedy movie set in back in the day Harlem then I can see why you didn't like it. But if you go into it expecting to laugh then you should like the movie as much as I do. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese, and just about every up and coming black comic of the time equals a very funny movie thats stylishly shot, slick as a can of oil, and everything those watching should expect from a comedy.

Harlem night was a great movie just because, it's older and i think it tells how the hustling life use to be back in the days. And in a way it kind of reminds me of a mob.

If there's one thing Eddie Murphy shouldn't have done at the downturn of his career is get behind the camera to direct. Maybe he was burned out with success with his previous movie, "Coming to America".

I would have thought that a "comedy" with top-notch celebrities such as Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx and Della Reese would have brought me into fits of laughter and tears, but only tears associated with constant, heavy yawning were to be had.

Richard Pryor doesn't have a funny moment in this movie. It almost seems that he's there to do Eddie Murphy a favor. Redd Foxx is pretty much himself as in anything that he stars in. Della Reese is the best part of the movie, playing a heavy-set whorehouse momma who doesn't take crap from anyone.

This movie would have flowed better had it been cut to 90 minutes or less, but instead drags on for almost two hours. In between the few laughs there are actors just being shuffled around to their next mark. Maybe this was just a pet project for Eddie because it certainly seems like it was a film school assignment.

The interior sets are very nice with the exception of the modern day Budweiser beer bottle in the bar scene, but then again historical accuracy is not one of this movies high points. Exterior sets look fake and thrown together.

I would say see this movie to see Richard Pryor in one of his last acting roles, but I just can't. He was more entertaining in Superman 3, and that's not saying much at all.