Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jeff
Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer
Directed by Stephen
Herek
The Good Buy Shopping Network's rating are
in the dumps until their producer and his assistant stumble across a
street guru named G. who ends up on the set of the GBSH and
jumpstarts the ratings with his mix of religion, philosophy and good
salesmanship. He soon becomes a national phenomenon himself, causing
the owner of the company to want to make G. a prime time star.
Conflicts arrise when the producer is offered the job of his dreams
if he can get G. signed to a contract, but he knows G. would be
unhappy if he could not continue his journey. Now he is conflicted
with using a good man and friend to get ahead or to let him go and be
an out of work failure himself.
As with most recent Eddie Murphy
vehicles, the talented former superstar carries the film all by
himself. Talk about a mixed bag! The film ranges all over the map
from inspiringly thought-provoking to trite formula mediocrity.
Credit should also go to director Stephen Herek with doing good work
with essentially a poorly plotted but cleverly written script. The
romance between Goldblum and Preston is tired and tepid, but Murphy
electrifies whenever he appears onscreen. Definitely worth watching
due to some genuinely compelling moments. It's a crime to waste such
goodness on formula Hollywood comedy-by-numbers.
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