Murphy, 50, made his feature filmdebutin 1982 withthe buddy comedy 48Hours and went on to star in the BeverlyHillsCop, TheNuttyProfessorandShrek franchises.
Some of his best known movies of the nineteen eighties include Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and theBeverly Hills Cop movies starring Eddie Murphy.
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The film "Nancy Drew" -- which seems to have been pitched as an unlikely combination of "Beverly HillsCop" and "Clueless" -- is more faithful to this model than it first appears.