In the conniving world of politics, even a professional shyster like Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) can find himself outmatched. After using name recognition to get elected, Johnson enjoys many of the same financial perks as other politicians. However, while investigating the connection between electric companies and cancer in young children, he unexpectedly develops a conscience. Unfortunately, fellow Congressman Dick Dodge (Lane Smith) isn't about to let him rock t... (Full plot summary below)
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In the conniving world of politics, even a professional shyster like Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) can find himself outmatched. After using name recognition to get elected, Johnson enjoys many of the same financial perks as other politicians. However, while investigating the connection between electric companies and cancer in young children, he unexpectedly develops a conscience. Unfortunately, fellow Congressman Dick Dodge (Lane Smith) isn't about to let him rock the boat.
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| Portland OregonianTed MaharMurphy's comic brilliance is at the service of the story and he positively shines with a number of diverse and zany impersonations, most enjoyably a Jesse Jackson takeoff. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe Distinguished Gentleman is an easy, breezy romp of a movie, a low comedy of highly entertaining order. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe Distinguished Gentleman prefers to give us measured laughs at a leisurely pace, and then it settles for the sellout upbeat ending. Ho hum. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomAn OK Murphy vehicle, but still the same old hip black guy smarter than the white men routine. |
| VarietyBrian LowryUneven but occasionally quite funny political satire. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAll The Distinguished Gentleman has is Eddie Murphy doing his best to be the life of the party. By the end of the movie you wish he would just go to another party. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittEddie Murphy does his patented routines effectively, and the dialogue has some pungent moments, but the movie doesn't succeed as the "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" update it would like to be. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThe filmmakers treat all the characters, not to mention the audience, as sitcom puppets. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonThis lightweight political sitcom takes awkward narrative jumps and sags in the middle...despite some taut byplay between Lane Smith and Joe Don Baker, the outcome is too obvious to be gratifying. |
| EmpireKim NewmanMurphy occasionally does uninterrupted seconds of shtick, but the film is stuffed with cheap sentiment (a kid with cancer), extraneous characters and embarrassing simplistic politics. |
