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DVD The Toy
This well-packaged 1983 remake of the French comedy Le Jouet features two legendary actors in an unlikely pairing. Richard Pryor (Live on the Sunset Strip, Stir Crazy) plays a down on his luck writer who is talked into taking a job as a plaything for the spoiled rich kid of billionaire Jackie Gleason (The Hustler), who just can't communicate with his own son. Amidst a constant stream of abuse and slapstick adventures, Pryor manages to bring out the heart in both father and son and bring them closer together, as he fights to retain his own dignity. Director Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon) concentrates on the outlandish set pieces and wisely leaves the comic timing up to the two old pros, making The Toy an entertaining diversion. --Robert Lane
If you think this movie is racist you have to be missing the whole point of Richard Pryor.He was trying to point out the absurdity of the situation and as it turns out most of the sonics applied to the movies plot have been discussed in the following reviews after mine.It's basically a lighthearted comdedy and is definately not pro-racism.In fact in the end the KKK get what they deserve.So it is okay to like this movie-I do.
wow... such blatant racism is a true rarity in today's world
now, anyone who would seriously defend the incredible racism in this movie needs to get their heads on straight. my girlfriend and i were hysterical with laughter at just how crazy this show was. and not for the same reasons the other reviews love it.
every single black/white stereotype is explored here... the black man needing to get a job. the white women sexually flipping out at the sight of a black man (weird... gleasons secretary telling pryor that she'll give him a bath as she's trying to rape him)... as soon as a black man gets a job, he completely blows it with his incompetent behaviour... and the idea of a rich southern white kid wanting to own a silly black man all for himself is.... SHOCKING... if you are looking at it from the right perspective... if tom hanks were to have starred in this flick, it would be a different story (...)... this is blatent racism that hasn't been seen since the 50's.
if you don't believe my comments, if you think i'm reading too much into a silly kids comedy, than go to the scene when pryor is being bought out in the toy store... that scene was incredibly offensive... here's pryor in the middle, with two wealthy white men on either side, shoveling large amounts of money in his hands with *gasp* A CONFEDERATE FLAG HANGING OVER RICHARD PRYORS HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SURELY THE PEOPLE INVOLVED WEREN'T BLIND TO THIS. SURELY THERE WAS SOME METAPHORICAL UNDERTONES THEY WERE TRYING TO GET ACROSS. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE IGNORANT OF THE RACISM IN THIS MOVIE. IF SO, THIS IS AN EMBARRASSING PIECE (...). it is anyways, this movie seriously sucked, even with childhood nostalgia behind it.
terrible movie. and offensive.
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I watched this movie numerous time when I was younger. I loved it and I just bought it last month. Of course it doesn't hold the same flame as it did when I was younger but it still has sentimental value.
He's had some good performances in supporting parts, but Richard Pryor never starred in a film that captured his comic brilliance the way his concert films did--proving that magic isn't something you can bottle. This 1985 film is no exception, even though it was directed by Walter Hill three years after he turned Eddie Murphy into a movie star with 48 HRS. The seventh film reworking of a warhorse stage play, this movie stars Pryor and John Candy as a pair of minor-league baseball players whose best days are behind them. Then Pryor is informed that he's just inherited a fortune--$300 million. But it comes with a condition: he must spend $30 million in one month, with a number of rules about how much he can spend at one time and how many of any one thing he can buy. Both Pryor and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Pryor - John Candy Director(s): Walter Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Sidney Poitier directed--without much distinction, sorry to say--this 1980 comedy teaming Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as New York knuckleheads who try their luck in California and are accused of robbing a bank. Most of the laughs concern their survival strategies in prison (at one point, Wilder decides to "reach out and talk" to some hulking murderer) and their plans to escape. Both performers are so brilliant in any situation that they give this film plenty of funny moments (one or two of which became instantly classic), but this is not exactly a film for the ages. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Wilder - Richard Pryor Director(s): Sidney Poitier DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I've seen this film five times since it was first released.
As I grow in age and watch this movie, I feel almost robbed that I wasn't either around, or old enough to appreciate the pure genius that both Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor held.
This film is about a blind man (played wonderfully by Richard Pryor) who's down on his luck and in need of a job. Luckily for him, a deaf newsstand owner (played with all the comic gusto he can muster by Gene Wilder) happens to be hiring.
Pryor owes a bookie big time, and when the bookie comes looking for him at his new place of employment, chaos ensues because he's murdered. Wally (Pryor) doesn't see it, and Dave (Wilder) doesn't hear it. The murderers get away and Dave and Wally are suspected. Their misson: clear... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Pryor - Gene Wilder Director(s): Arthur Hiller DVD Release Date: Released the 30 October 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Despite the presence of hack director Arthur Hiller, this hybrid comedy-thriller works most of the time as pleasant faux Hitchcock. Gene Wilder is a book editor who is relaxing by taking a cross-country train ride. Then he gets caught up in a murder--and becomes a suspect. It's up to him to prove his own innocence. As noted, the script, by Colin Higgins, owes a big debt to Alfred Hitchcock; but the mystery isn't all that mysterious and the comedy isn't all that hilarious--at least not until Richard Pryor shows up, which is at least halfway through the film. Things definitely pick up from there. Jill Clayburgh, as the love interest, is merely along for the train ride. Wilder and Pryor eventually teamed up for several other films, but they were never as funny together as they are in this... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Wilder - Richard Pryor Director(s): Arthur Hiller DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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