After losing his entire fortune, Hollywood actor Grover Foster makes his anything-but-triumphant return to the quirky small town he left behind and is forced into working for his father, who is now happily married to the girl Grover escorted to his senior prom.
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.