In 1989, Hollywood money magnet Eddie Murphy and indie film upstart Spike Lee both directed films that left their marks in Hollywood history. Many would see their positions in Hollywood and assume they are worlds apart, but the two men, children of the same generation, are very much in conversation cinematically.

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