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Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor - what members say
review by from London
Great Comedy, Great Score 18 May 2006
review by from CRAWLEY
29 January 2004
review by A customer from GLASGOW
TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
Richard Pryor - filmography
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Lost Highway
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
Certificate: 
Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's ..read more »
 
68%
from 7,058 members
Not currently released
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Lost Highway - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
Certificate:
Director David Lynch ups the weird ante with this "psychological fugue." Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) is a jazz saxophonist who is married to the beautiful Renee (a brown-haired Patricia Arquette). After receiving menacing videotapes taken from inside their home, the couple begin to worry. Fred's ..read more »
40%
from 2 members
Not available for rental
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Another You
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
Director: Maurice Phillips
Certificate: 
In their fourth outing as a team, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder star as a chronic liar and a con man whose deceptive ways get them into a very sticky situation involving a missing millionaire, his beautiful wife, a fearsome estate executive, and a serious case of mistaken identity. As the lies and ..read more »
55%
from 1,008 member
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Harlem Nights
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Jasmine Guy
Director: Eddie Murphy
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Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) became Quick's (Eddie Murphy) adopted father when an adolescent Quick saved his life. Twenty-five years later, in 1938, Ray runs the most popular club in Harlem, with Quick as his right-hand man. Before long, Bugsy, a white mobster (Michael Lerner) comes knocking for a ..read more »
60%
from 1,237 member
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Uptown Saturday Night
(1988)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte
Director: Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet-which happens to hold a winning lottery ticket.
78%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Moving
(1988)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Randy Quaid, Beverly Todd
Director: Alan Metter
Certificate: 
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.
65%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Critical Condition
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro
Director: Michael Apted
Certificate:
The storyline mixes outrageous comedy with a dose of suspense as it portrays the chaotic aftermath of a power failure in a big city hospital. Coupled to all this, Richard Pryor appears as a fake mental patient, hopefully avoiding going to prison.
61%
from 717 members
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Brewster's Millions
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Stephen Collins
Director: Walter Hill
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In order to inherit a vast fortune, a man must first spend 30 million dollars in thirty days. He may not give it away, and at the end of the thirty days, no tangible assets may remain. Pryor is the hopeful inheritor, and Candy is his best buddy.
68%
from 8,959 members
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Superman III
(1983)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate:
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Superman matches wits with an evil mastermind and a computer genius who discovers the one substance that can harm the Man of Steel. Combining the known ingredients of Kryptonite with a guess at the unknown, the genius invents a new Kryptonite that doesn't kill Superman it turns him evil. Meanwhile, ..read more »
61%
from 6,236 members
Not currently released
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Some Kind Of Hero
(1982)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder
Director: Michael Pressman
Certificate:
Pryor effectively mixes poignant drama and slapstick comedy in this story of a P.O.W. who returns home to find his world shattered. He takes revenge on society by turning to a life of petty crime.
55%
from 12 members
Not available for rental
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Bustin Loose
(1981)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson
Director: Oz Scott
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Foulmouthed Joe (Richard Pryor) breaks his parole, but is given a chance to prove his worth by a schoolteacher (Cicely Tyson). She hires him to drive a bus full of Special School kids from Philadelphia, but Joe is a bit unnerved by their various mental problems. Soon, however, the bonds of ..read more »
56%
from 17 members
Currently unavailable
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Stir Crazy
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Lee Purcell, Gene Wilder, Joel Brooks
Director: Sidney Poitier
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New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about ..read more »
70%
from 6,343 members
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Wholly Moses!
(1980)
Starring: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco
Director: Gary Weis
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Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses.
60%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Blue Collar
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Director: Paul Schrader
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In 'Blue Collar', Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut, three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also, as the film reveals in ..read more »
71%
from 957 members
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The Wiz
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor
Director: Sidney Lumet
Certificate: 
Dorothy, a young African-American kindergarten teacher leaves a large family dinner one night to chase after her dog during a New York City snowstorm and gets swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to the urban version of the land of Oz.
52%
from 918 members
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Richard Pryor - Live In Concert
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Richard Pryor
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LIVE IN CONCERT is Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III's funniest performance. His tough background, being abandoned by his mother at the age of 10, his battles with racism, drugs and sexual addiction, a handful of wives and children have given him sufficient ammunition for his acerbic wit and ..read more »
69%
from 4,971 members
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Which Way Is Up?
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Lonette McKee, Dolph Sweet, Richard Pryor
Director: Michael Schultz
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A seriocomic tale of love, seduction, and betrayal in the strife-torn farm country of central California. Richard Pryor plays several roles here, most significantly a migrant worker who works his way up the ranks in the agricultural company controlling one of the farms.
50%
from 27 members
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Silver Streak
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Humorous tale set aboard a train bound from Los Angeles to Detroit. Gene Wilder plays an editor who becomes involved in art forgery and a murder plot, as well as having a romantic escapade with a young sexy female...all during one train ride.
67%
from 1,425 member
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Car Wash
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: The Pointer Sisters, Bill Duke, Antonio Fargas
Director: Michael Schultz
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Director Michael Schultz follows up his critically acclaimed and commercially successful COOLEY HIGH with this hilarious day-in-the-life tale set in modern day Los Angeles. At Sully Boyar's car wash, a juvenile, motley crew of city dwellers "work their fingers to the bone" waiting on the eccentric ..read more »
60%
from 598 members
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The Mack
(1973)
Starring: Max Julien, Carol Speed, Richard Pryor
Director: Michael Campus
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Goldie's a cutthroat, penny-pinching black businessman, eager to climb to the top of his profession. Just because he's a pimp doesn't mean he wants any less than the very best cars, clothes and women. But when he finally gets what he wants, he'll have more than he bargained for: white detectives, ..read more »
42%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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Wattstax
(1973)
Starring: Ossie Davis, Richard Pryor, Fred Berry
Director: Mel Stuart
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Originally released in 1973, WATTSTAX is a musical and cultural artifact that pays tribute to the Watts riots, which ravaged Los Angeles for six days beginning August 11, 1965. The film's main focus is the Watts Summer Festival's 1972 concert held at the Los Angeles Coliseum, featuring performances ..read more »
47%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Dynamite Chicken
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Richard Pryor
Director: Ernest Pintoff
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Comedian Richard Pryor takes on gays, astronauts, bodily functions, the Pope, black power, women's lib and old age. Cameo performances by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
35%
from 183 members
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Black Brigade
(1969)
Starring: Richard Pryor, Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks
Director: George McCowan
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Captain Carter (Stephen Boyd) is an officer in World War II who must lead a troop on a suicide mission into Nazi territory. Carter is white, and the unit he is assigned is Company B, an all-Black unit that has seen no action other than digging graves and latrines. Carter has two days to get the ..read more »
36%
from 36 members
Currently unavailable
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Richard Pryor Stand-Up Comedy Boxset
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Richard Pryor
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Legendary comedian Richard Pryor displays his wit and humour in two stand-up titles. Filmed at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, HERE AND NOW sees Richard Pryor delight his audience with a succession of sharp, witty and outrageous tales of sex, drugs and politics. LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP sees ..read more »
70%
from 674 members
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... Alda and Jane Fonda - and really chokingly funny slapstick from Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. There's also a great jazz score from Claude Bolling that makes this movie a f...
