Con man named Thomas Jefferson ("Jeff") Johnson gets himself elected to the seat vacated by a deceased congressman named Jefferson Davis ("Jeff") Johnson. A pert and pretty consumer-rights advocate leads him into romance and conscience. Eddie Murphy is permitted to do plenty of "funny" voices (a couple of them -- a Jesse Jackson-ish ministerial one, a prissy professorial one -- funnier than the others), but the comedy, dedicated to the proposition that the biggest crooks are Capitol Hill crooks, is forever bogged down in know-it-all didactics. With Victoria Rowell, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lane Smith, Joe Don Baker, James Garner; directed by Jonathan Lynn. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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