From the Hill and Beyond #6 by Malik Seneferu

Film: Coming to America

Wednesday, 2/18/2026
5:30 - 7:30
Koret Auditorium
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

A wealthy African prince who rebels against an arranged marriage travels to Queens, New York City. Once he arrives, he poses as an average guy in order to seek out a worthy American woman to become his wife.

This film stars Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall, members of what Dr. Artel Great calls The Black Pack, a comedy supergroup, who created a series of socially and politically charged films and TV shows that revolutionized popular culture and changed the face of American comedy.

R, 116 mins., 1988. Closed captions (CC) in English. 

Related program: Author: Dr. Artel Great, The Black Pack: Comedy, Race and Resistance 

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