Trent
Christian is a young man growing up in Hollywood who dreams of following in his father's footsteps into show business. When he meets Tony, an industry insider with "connections," he is convinced that he has found his big break -- landing acting jobs and dating beautiful women. Christian thinks he is at his prime, until he has a falling out with Tony over drugs. He soon learns that the same connections that enabled him to get his start and realize his dream can just as easily destroy it. Hiding the truth of his washed-up career from family and friends, Christian escapes his reality through intense drug use - beginning his fatal turn of fate. Will Christian ever turn his life around? Will he find redemption?
A gifted athlete (T. J. Storm) moves to Tinseltown with dreams of making it big in show business, but finds himself sucked into a doppelganger world of crime and drugs. Ever the survivor, he learns firsthand about the dark side of life and becomes stronger in that knowledge. And hey, it's great experience for acting future film roles.
Dancer (uncredited)
Akeem (Eddie Murphy), o príncipe herdeiro de Zamunda, África, se rebela contra o casamento arranjando por seu pai, o rei Jaffe Joffer (James Earl Jones), que concorda que o filho viaje pelo mundo por 40 dias. Assim, Akeem vai para Nova York, se passando por um pobre estudante para encontrar uma noiva que o ame pelo o que ele é, não por sua posição. Vai trabalhar em uma lanchonete e sente-se atraído por Lisa (Shari Hadley), a filha do seu patrão, Cleo McDowell (John Amos), que é interesseiro e atrapalha o romance, pois quer um bom partido para a filha, sem imaginar quem é na verdade seu funcionário. Akeem viajou com Semmi (Arsenio Hall), seu melhor amigo, que não gosta de se passar por pobre e faz gastos e toma atitudes que podem revelar a identidade de Akeem.
