10 Great Movies Starring The Office Cast
7. Dolemite Is My Name
Eddie Murphy is one of the strangest superstars in Hollywood. He can spend years in the wilderness, producing garbage, and all of a sudden come out with a career best performance and arguably the finest Netflix movie to date.
Dolemite Is My Name is a superb biopic of filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, better known as blaxploitation character Dolemite. Moore went from struggling musician to genre superstar via a series of films centred around the multifaceted pimp and kung fu extraordinaire.
Murphy’s film is a great showcase for all manner of talents, with a choice role for Craig Robinson - The Office’s Darryl - as nightclub performer Ben Taylor. The honey-voiced Robinson can never resist an opportunity to croon on film, and here he gets to perform alongside an energised and invested Eddie Murphy, which can only have been a blast.
Even with no knowledge of the blaxploitation genre, Dolemite Is My Name is a must watch. It’s a raucous but sensitive biography of a fascinating character. The biopic can tend towards the plodding and dull - not this one.