Holy Man

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Holy Man
Holy Man promotional poster
Directed by	Stephen Herek
Produced by	Ray Murphy Rebekah Rudd
Written by	Tom Schulman
Starring	Eddie Murphy Jeff Goldblum Kelly Preston Eric McCormack
Music by	Alan Silvestri
Cinematography	Adrian Biddle
Editing by	Trudy Ship
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	October 9, 1998 (USA)
Running time	109 min.
Language	English/German/Spanish
IMDb profile

Holy Man is a film produced in 1998 starring Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston. It was directed by Stephen Herek.

Ricky (Goldblum) is a producer of a home shopping network, and business is not good. Preston plays a fellow employee brought in to shake things up by the manager. Eddie Murphy plays G, an itinerant holy man, who shows the two that life itself is more important than business.

[edit] Plot

Ricky and Kate are having trouble selling their Home Shopping items. They meet up with G, a weird yet happy guy wearing robes. They put him on the Home Shopping programming and the viewers identify with him and they buy the items he's hawking

Later, G learns that this is all about business, and it's all about money and greed. G loses faith in things and it's up to Ricky and Kate to bring him back to the magic of his happy life

[edit] Rating

Holy Man received a 10% from Rotten Tomatoes.

[edit] External links

• Holy Man at the Internet Movie Database