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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Stephen Herek
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Actors:
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Morgan Fairchild,
Robert Small,
Kim Staunton,
Florence Henderson,
Sam Kitchin,
Mary Stout,
Eddie Murphy,
Jeff Goldblum,
Kelly Preston,
Robert Loggia,
Jon Cryer,
Eric McCormack,
Marc Macaulay,
Edie McClurg,
Betty White
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Duration:
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109 min.
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Rating:
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(4.7/10)92.5
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Plot Summary:
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Comedy in which Jeff Goldblum's television executive is tough to rise the ratings of a available shopping avenue. Into his life comes Eddie Murphy's self styled guru figure whose outrageous ways soon acquire the viewers tuning in.
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Tags:
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Holy Man
Light Fluff kept on the edge by Eddie Murphy and Jeff Goldblum. Some happy gags and a "Larry Sanders" style failed attempt, editing highly questionable.
Not unwatchable but could have been better, much better.
Holy Man
A charismatic guru proves a smash on a shopping network, but does he have more to sell than mere platitudes? Broad satire starring Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston
Holy Man is one of Eddie Murphy's post-transsexual hitchhiker pictures. As such, it is a film out to upset no one and keen to prove that Mr Murphy is a good, decent, average American who doesn't have a thing for men in dresses. As he said at the time, he only picked up him/her up because she/he was a damsel/dude in distress.
Murphy stars as G, a Deepak Chopra-style guru who has easy answers to even the most difficult of questions. A personable chap, G literally bumps into home shopping network exec Ricky Hayman (Goldblum) who offers the hair-shy shaman a job with his ailing c...
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