Description: Movies/Stand up documentaries with Richard Pryor
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Another You
( 1991 )
George has been in a mental hospital for three years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
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Silver Streak
( 1976 )
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
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Movie:
The Toy
( 1982 )
An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
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Stir Crazy
( 1980 )
Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. However, no prison cell could keep them locked in.
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
( 1989 )
Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.
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Brewster's Millions
( 1985 )
A minor league baseball player has to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days, in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
( 1986 )
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
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Critical Condition
( 1987 )
Con man Kevin Lennihan, framed in a jewel smuggling, tries for an insanity plea, and is sent to a hospital for review, where he is confused for a doctor and takes over the hospital when a major storm hits.
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Superman III
( 1983 )
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.
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Bustin' Loose
( 1981 )
Failed parolee Joe Braxton has one last shot at redemption: by driving school kids from Philadelphia to Washington State.
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Adiós Amigo
( 1975 )
A conman's crimes are blamed on a good-natured fast-drawing cowboy he meets and decides to use as decoy.
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Blue Collar
( 1978 )
When three workers try to steal from the local union, they discover the corruption of the union instead and decide to blackmail them.
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Some Call It Loving
( 1973 )
A woman who's been asleep for years is part of a carnival that sells her kisses for a buck. A lonely jazz musician buys her. Once awake, the two of them and his two girlfriends hook up. But sometimes, dreams are better than reality.
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Greased Lightning
( 1978 )
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.
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Moving
( 1988 )
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
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In God We Trust (or Gimme That Prime Time Religion)
( 1980 )
Raised in a Trappist monastery, the innocent Brother Ambrose sets out to find money to save the bankrupt monastery. His education in worldliness is provided by a hooker. He eventually petitions G. O. D. For the cash.
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Richard Pryor... Here and Now
( 1983 )
Part live stand-up performance, part documentary, this film is one of comedian Richard Pryor's later stand-up performances. As foul-mouthed as ever, Pryor touches on most of the same topics as in his previous live shows.
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
( 1977 )
In the late 1930s during racial segregation, a star of the Negro League Baseball, Bingo Long, leaves his team and convinces other stars of the league to join him as free agent players touring the towns of the Midwest.
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Car Wash
( 1976 )
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
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Movie:
Which Way Is Up?
( 1978 )
Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to leave his wife and family behind which also includes Leroy's father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles. Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home. He is a manager at the company but he is now distant from his former pals. He meets and falls in love with Vanetta who is a labor organizer which leaves him splitting time between his wife Annie Mae and Vanetta. When Leroy finds out that the Reverend Lenox Thomas (also played by Pryor) has got his wife pregnant while he was absent, he then make the moves on the reverend's wife.
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Harlem Nights
( 1989 )
During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.
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