Coming to America
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
Our read · Coming to America (1988) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Coming to America
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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