The Golden Child

Theatrical - Wide 1986-12-12

Cast J.L. Reate Eddie Murphy Charles Dance Charlotte Lewis
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Written by Dennis Feldman

Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Mystery

Synopsis

Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the ‘Chosen one’ who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.

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