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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Comedy /
Fantasy /
Mystery /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Michael Ritchie
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Actors:
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Randall 'Tex' Cobb,
Wally Taylor,
Charlotte Lewis,
Charles Levin,
Pons Maar,
J.L. Reate,
Shakti Chen,
Tau Logo,
Tiger Chung Lee,
Eddie Murphy,
Charles Dance,
Victor Wong,
James Hong,
Peter Kwong,
Eric Douglas
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)156.5
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Plot Summary:
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Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the 'Chosen a person' who will set aside and protect the White-headed Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an villainous warlock. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more indication of demon worship as he investigates.
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Golden Child, The
Eddie Murphy's fifth feature film, in which he plays a guy who specialises in finding lost children and is told to protect the titular kid after being declared the 'Chosen One'
After blazing his way across stages and TV screens as a stand-up, Eddie Murphy's larger-than-life persona made it to the big screen with 1982's 48 HRS. He followed this hit up with two more hits - Trading Places then 1984's mega-smash Beverley Hills Cop.
The flame fizzled slightly after this: aside from his "Strategic Guest Star" appearance in the Dudley Moore flop Best Defense, 1986's The Golden Child didn't go down as well with the critics as the three previous films. It was still a comparative box office s...
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Eddie Murphy followed up his Beverly Hills Cop success with this fantasy adventure that plops him right into the land of Ray Harryhausen and Indiana Jones. The plot revolves around a God-like youngster (J.L. Reate) known as a 'golden child,' who has been sent to Tibet to bring the gift of compassion to humanity. But the devil isn't idle, sending his emissary, Sardo Numspa (Charles Dance) to kidnap the golden child. Sardo absconds with the child and takes off to Los Angeles. In L.A., a beautiful Tibetan priestess named Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis) seeks out Chandler Jarrell (Eddie Murphy), a social worker and self-styled 'finder of lost children.' She tells Chandler he has been chosen to rescue the magical child from the devil and save the world from evil. Before Chandle...
Golden Child, The
Hot on the heels of Telling Agitation in Little China, this similarly attempts to the thrills of oriental military arts...
Golden Child, The
After blazing his road across stages and TV screens as a stand-up, Eddie Murphy's larger-than-life front made it to the big camouflage with 1982's 48 HRS. He followed this bang up with two more hits - Trading Places then 1984's mega-smash Beverley Hills Cop. The flame fizzled slightly after this: aside from his "Tactical Guest Top banana" appearance in the Dudley Moore come to naught Most artistically Defense, 1986's The Flourishing Adolescent didn't scan down as marvellously with the critics as the three previous films. It was still a comparative battle job triumph - but not in the just the same association as Beverley Hills Cop (it took $80 million in the US, while Cop took $235 million). Part of the problem may clothed arisen from the in ...
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