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Title: Serious and Funny -
Review: Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary - wasted lives. Ray Murphy, a pick-pocket and con man, and Claude Lawrence), a straight-living bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in a 1932 Harlem nightclub. In order to pay off their debts to a local crime lord, the mismatched pair travel into the Deep South on a moonshine delivery only to be framed for murder by a racist Southern cop. Sentenced to life in a Mississippi state prison, the bickering duo spend the next 65 years trading barbs and planning their escape, while forming an unlikely but touching friendship. They finally escape substituting dead bodies for their own in a arson-fire - and end the movie together watching a Yankees game together. There are a few good laughs, but it's not what one would expect from the two comedians - it's more a friendship movie that develops over time.
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