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The Distinguished Gentleman | 1992 | R | - 3.2.4
Eddie Murphy stars as a small-time con artist who wins a congressional seat due to name recognition (he's called Thomas Jefferson Johnson) and quickly discovers that the big cons are the perfectly legal kind pulled every day on Capitol Hill.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - One clothed, but very graphic, sex scene in which the original Congressman Johnson has sex with an aide on a desk. It is in this scene he has a heart attack and dies. In the beginning Murphy and his cousin are running a phone sex scam with some sexual innuendos. No nudity.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - Pretty mild stuff. There's a scuffle, and one punch is thrown. Also, Murphy kicks a guy.
LANGUAGE 4 - Lots of references to excrement and a few SOBs.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Adultery, stealing, blackmail, bribery (all that usual Congressional stuff).
MESSAGE - Corruption is bad. It's better to do the right thing because you should make a difference with your life. Money isn't everything.
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We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits.
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