Overview
- The one-off documentary premiered on Netflix on November 12, offering a career-spanning profile largely filmed inside Murphy’s home.
- Directed by two-time Oscar winner Angus Wall, it blends new interviews and archival material with voices including Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Brian Grazer.
- Murphy revisits formative family trauma, discussing his parents’ divorce and his father’s killing, and he credits stepfather Vernon Lynch as a defining role model.
- He highlights the influence of his late brother Charlie Murphy, with a brief on-camera moment he describes as a rare instance of true vulnerability.
- In comments echoed in coverage around the film, Murphy says he has paid for funerals and headstones for fellow entertainers, avoids attending services, and prefers cremation without a memorial, while early critiques note the film favors his own narrative.