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DVD Let's Do It Again
Back in the day, when Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, Issac Hayes, and Pam Grier were stickin' it to the Man, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby collaborated on three buddy comedies that offered urban audiences an alternative to private dicks, sex machines, and bad muthas. The Uptown Saturday Nightstars re-team for an "outtasite" scam involving hypnosis, a hopeless beanpole boxer (Jimmie Good Times Walker), and two rival kingpins. Though in fashion and patois Let's Do It Again is a candidate for the '70s time capsule, it does hold up better than most of its more militant blaxploitation brethren. Poitier, the straight man, and Cosby, working his improvisational mojo, are a great comedy team. Worth the price of purchase alone is the sight of these icons decked out in flamboyant Mack Daddy duds to impress their marks, Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Curtis Mayfield's score, with vocals by the Staples Singers, is also good for the soul. --Donald Liebenson
This is the crown jewel in the Poitier-Cosby partnership. It has just the right combination of outright thigh-slappers and more subtle comedic touches. This is my favorite move of all time. I could (and do) watch it over and over, marveling that it can still make me laugh (hard) each and every time.
I cannot give this movie a high enough recommendation. If the grading system went up to 10 stars, that's what it would get from me.
A pleasant evening on the couch
This is a pleasant light comedy from the 70's.
Sidney Poitier as a milkman-hypnotist plays a relaxed straight role, with his sidekick, the refreshing Bill Cosby...they make a good team, and complement each other's characters perfectly.
Jimmie Walker as the gormless "Bootney Farnsworth" provides a reasonable number of laughs.
This is not a laugh-out-loud comedy, but a gentler, happier format...mild pleasant humour, of a feel-good escapist variety.
A good buy for fans of the irrepressible Bill Cosby.
Comedy at it's best!!!
I love this movie!!!!! When I first saw this on HBO I was laughing so hard that my stomach was hurting and I was crying. Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier in rare form. Also, the cast was good and Jimmie Walker topped it off. Also, the soundtrack with the Mom & Pop Stables is dynamite!!! You can't beat the 70s!!!
The last, and least, film in the so-called Uptown trilogy, this 1977 buddy comedy is preachier than its more rollicking predecessors, Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. It begins like The Sting, but then veers into To Sir, with Love territory, as Dave (Bill Cosby), a safecracker, and Manny (Sidney Poitier), a con man, are blackmailed by a retired detective (James Earl Jones, who would achieve pop-culture immortality that year as the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars) to work at a community-improvement center and inspire the delinquent youth to respect themselves and find jobs. An answer to the violent and militant blaxploitation films of the period, these films, each directed by Poitier, were the Barbershop of their... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sidney Poitier - Bill Cosby Director(s): Sidney Poitier DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It's easy to get hooked by Claudine, a lean, funny, Nixon-era movie about a romance nearly undone by a patronizing welfare system. Diahann Carroll stars as Claudine, single mother of six children in Harlem and a maid working for under-the-table wages. Forever worried that her white caseworker will discover her meager, outside income (thus eliminating meager government benefits), Claudine further complicates her domestic situation by falling in love with Roop (James Earl Jones). An affable Romeo and absent but financially supportive father of several kids, Roop by his presence jeopardizes Claudine's official status as a mom without means. The couple's decision to go forward results in welfare backlash, personal humiliation, family strain, and corrosive behavior. A sharp script... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Diahann Carroll - James Earl Jones Director(s): John Berry DVD Release Date: Released the 14 January 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Richard Pryor's face is plastered all over the cover of Car Wash, but don't be fooled. This slight comedy, made in 1976, is an ensemble piece much like Robert Altman's or Alan Rudolph's all-star movies in that there are a lot of familiar faces who have relatively little screen time or business to attend to. Set in smoggy Los Angeles, the film opens with a radio announcer's voiceover, "Hey, hey, L.A. It's a brand new day." And the camera pans the street, zooming in on the Dee-Luxe Car Wash, which is owned by the ultimate cheapskate, Mr. B (Sully Boyar). In rapid succession, we're introduced to a dizzying array of characters who all work or hang out at the car wash: drag queen Lindy (Antonio Fargas), brothers Floyd and Lloyd who want to be in show business, a hip brother, an angry... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Pryor - Franklyn Ajaye Director(s): Michael Schultz DVD Release Date: Released the 06 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Based on Chester Himes's novel, this film marked actor-writer Ossie Davis's directing debut. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques play Himes's volatile police detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who are on the trail of white men who pulled an armed stickup at a Back to Africa rally in Harlem. The money belongs to the poor people who paid for a chance to return to the motherland--but was it really a stickup? Or is the flashy preacher at the center of the Back to Africa movement (Calvin Lockhart) involved in a scam to rip off his own people? The plot drags; the best part of the film are the performances (as well as spotting cameos by such actors as the then-unknown Cleavon Little) and the on-location shooting in parts of New York where a camera had rarely ventured... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Godfrey Cambridge - Raymond St. Jacques Director(s): Ossie Davis DVD Release Date: Released the 26 December 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This 1977 American variation on Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi, the story of a stupid man's troubles in sex and politics, is a run-of-the-mill Richard Pryor vehicle. Noteworthy only for its casting of two good actresses, Lonette McKee and Margaret Avery, and Pryor's multiple roles as an orange picker, a lecherous old man, and a minister, the film is made without a lot of care or effort to rise to Wertmuller's satiric accomplishment. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Lonette McKee - Richard Pryor Director(s): Michael Schultz DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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