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The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · Film · 112 min
Directed by Jonathan Lynn
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
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Have you ever seen the Eddie Murphy movie The Distinguished Gentleman? Santos sounds like a real life version of that.
Eddie Murphy is a household name in Russia and someone must've been just helping themselves to some material from one of his movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Distinguished_Gentleman
Talk about life imitating art and all that.
Similar to the plot of a fairly good Eddie Murphy film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Distinguished_Gentleman