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London,
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Dir: Karey Kirkpatrick.
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Bobb'e J Thompson, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Vanessa Williams, Martin Sheen, Yara Shahidi
Description: High-flying investment adviser Evan Danielson has his eyes set on promotion but to land the big office, he must impress his guru Dante D'Enzo and outwit Native American rival Johnny Whitefeather. In the midst of the promotion battle, Evan is shocked when seven-year-old daughter Olivia correctly predicts a series of takeovers and market crashes, apparently told to her by fairy princesses from an imaginary kingdom.
Country: US. 2009. 107mins
Bad dad: Eddie Murphy and the magic blanket
After the scatological Norbit, which made a killing despite a critical bashing, Eddie Murphy returns in a family comedy directed by Karey Kirkpatrick.
It got a much better reception from the American critics but flopped at the box office.
Murphy plays Evan, a would-be financial wizard who is stymied for promotion at work by a pseudo-mystical Native American called Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church).
At home, he is tormented by his small daughter (Yara Shahidi) for never being there when it matters. She relapses into a fantasy world with a security blanket called her goo-gaa.
He’s a torn man — but the little girl saves him, thanks to share tips she picks up courtesy of the princesses she visits through the blanket. He also manages to see off Whitefeather: his boss (Martin Sheen) is impressed by the fact that he runs out of a vital interview to go to his daughter’s school concert.
It’s anodyne stuff and not funny enough; Murphy struts his stuff but Shahidi beats him in the charm stakes.
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