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(The real Moore recorded a number of prominent street poets, including Big Brown.)

One day, homeless man Ricco wanders into the record store, making loud, rhyming proclamations one of which includes the name “Dolemite”.

Asking the club owner for a comedy time slot, he is turned down. He moonlights as an MC for his friend Ben Taylor and band at a club. Struggling artist Rudy Ray Moore works in a record store in 1970s LA, trying to get on the air in the in-store radio station. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor for Murphy. It was chosen by both the National Board of Review and Time magazine as one of the ten best films of the year. Dolemite Is My Name received positive reception from both audiences and film critics, with praise for Murphy's performance and the humor. It was released in a limited release on October 4, and streaming on Netflix three weeks later. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019.

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The film stars Eddie Murphy as filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, who is best known for having portrayed the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, which started with Dolemite in 1975. Dolemite Is My Name is a 2019 American biographical comedy film directed by Craig Brewer and written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

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