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Harlem Nights
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Harlem Nights is a 1989 American crime dramedy film written and directed by Eddie Murphy, who also stars along with Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Arsenio Hall, and Jasmine Guy. Set in Harlem, New York in 1938, it's about a father-son duo running an illicit after-hours nightclub/casino disguised as a candy store while contending with gangsters and corrupt police officials.Murphy's first (and only) feature directorial effort, the film was a critical and box-office disappointment,note not exactly a flop—it grossed over $16 million in its opening weekend—but not nearly as successful as Murphy's prior starring vehicles and earned a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay. | |
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Papa Wolf: After Quick kills Dominique la Rue, Ray sends him into hiding. When Quick protests, thinking it would make him a coward, Ray tells him he cares about him too much to let him let his pride get him killed: | |
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Crapsack World: The setting is The Great Depression and a year before WWII, so life is not going to be fun. | |
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Parental Abandonment: Richie leaves his wife and daughter for Sunshine, even converted from Catholicism to Baptism for her. | |
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It Works Better with Bullets | |
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It Works Better with Bullets: Dominique tries shooting Quick after sex. Unfortunately, he discovered the gun under the pillow while she was out of the room... | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: Dominique la Rue tries this on Quick, but ends up getting the tables turned. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: 133, to be exact. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: Vera's pinky toe is shot off by Quick. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Sugar Ray's plot to take down Bugsy Calhoune. Sugar Ray planned to rob Calhoune of all the money that would be placed on the boxing champion Jack Jenkins by having Jenkins take a dive during the match after betting against him and stealing the rest of the money from Calhoune later before skipping town. This all later turned out to be a ruse to lure Calhoune and his men to Phil's home after putting him out of commission and blowing them all away with explosives. | |
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Gag Echo | |
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Gag Echo: Sugar Ray asks Vera if she's got a girl who can work on Richie Vento. Vera says, "I've got a girl whose pussy is so good, if you threw it up in the air it would turn into sunshine." Later, when Vento asks the girl in question her name, she says, "Sunshine." | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
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You Have Failed Me: Calhoune does not take incompetence lightly at all. He threatens his right hand man Tony with death if he brings another crooked person in to his organization again and that's before smashing Tony's hand with the top of the piano and completely breaking it. He also has Cantone and Tony murder Tommy for swindling him out of $5,000. | |
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Sassy Black Woman | |
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Sassy Black Woman: Vera, in spades. | |
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Fearless Fool | |
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Fearless Fool: Quick is one of these to deconstructive levels. His bravado and complete apathy towards attacking notable dangerous crime boss Calhoune for messing with his club's business is met with intense criticism from Sugar Ray for it and if not for his ability to react quickly to danger like his namesake he would have been dead twice over. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: While Bugsy Calhoune's muscling in on Club Sugar Ray appears to be strictly business, Cantone is jealous of the success of black men like Ray and Quick. Even more so as a cop living in squalor while they happen to be gambling criminals living a life of luxury. | |
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Embarrassing First Name | |
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Embarrassing First Name: Quick's real name is Vernest Brown. He's understandably not proud of it. | |
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Signature Laugh | |
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Signature Laugh: Wouldn't be an Eddie Murphy movie without one. Tommy Smalls also has a distinctive, over-the-top guffaw. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Other than the Paramount Pictures logonote It carries the "early morning" version from the late '80s at the start and end, the entire movie takes place at night. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Dominique La Rue. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Bugsy Calhoune. | |
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Speech Impediment | |
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Speech Impediment: Boxing champion Jack Jenkins stutters so badly, he has a hard time hailing a taxi. | |
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Little Useless Gun | |
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Little Useless Gun: While the Crying Man and one of his associates are firing Tommy guns at Quick, another is firing a small-caliber handgun that makes a weak firecracker-like noise. The Crying Man smacks his associate, saying "Don't shoot that little motherfucker no more!" | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Back of the Head: After Quick collides with the Crying Man, who accidentally ventilates his Tommy Gun into the man sitting in front of him in the car, much to Crying Man's shock. | |
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Pillow Pistol | |
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Pillow Pistol: Both Quick and Dominique have one during their night together, but unfortunately Quick takes the bullets out of Dominique's gun without her knowledge causing her Honey Trap to backfire. | |
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Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere | |
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Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: Sugar Ray and Quick lock Cantone in the vault of an abandoned bank; they tell him they'll call the cops and report Cantone's location in a few days, and joke about how he might not run out of air if he takes shallow breaths. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Quick survives the attack by the Crying Man and his friends by firing three fatal shots from cover in under a second. He even surprised himself with how he managed such a feat. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: How Cantone dispatches Tommy Smalls. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Having Eddie Murphy get into a fist fight with freaking Della Reese. And she wins. | |
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Go Seduce My Archnemesis | |
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Go Seduce My Archnemesis: Bugsy sends Dominique to be a Honey Trap for Quick. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Phil Cantone. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: Quick is first seen as a child. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Quick demonstrates his willingness to fight women when he fights and shoots off Vera's pinky toe and kills Dominique. | |
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