Jack Brown
Richard Pryor
Jack Brown
The Toy
“When Jackie Gleason told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all...Richard Pryor.”
5.9
1982
1h 42m
ComedyFamily
Director: Richard Donner
Overview
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
Trailer
The Toy Trailer
Cast
Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Jackie Gleason
Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Sydney Morehouse
Ned Beatty
Sydney Morehouse
Eric Bates
Scott Schwartz
Eric Bates
Fancy Bates
Teresa Ganzel
Fancy Bates
Barkley
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Barkley
Clifford
Tony King
Clifford
Angela
Annazette Chase
Angela
O'Brien
Don Hood
O'Brien
Fraulein
Karen Leslie-Lyttle
Fraulein
Ruby Simpson
Virginia Capers
Ruby Simpson
State Trooper
Steve Kahan
State Trooper
Reviews
GenerationofSwine
In "I Am Richard Pryor" they kind of blasted this movie as being horrible....And here I am thinking it was a beloved childhood classic. They won't remake it now, the PC police would be all over them...despite the fact that it was Richard Pryor and he was BLM long before there was a BLM. And, honestly, I can see how the people that made "I Am Richard Pryor" would look down on this, I mean...it's childish. But it's also childish fun, and just because Pryor is cleaning things up a bit for the film, just because he's not vulgar and not dropping the N-bomb every few seconds doesn't mean he's not hysterical. And let's be hones, he had more family friendly and less adult movies in the past as well. His movies don't have to be as gritty as his stand up is. You can enjoy both, liking one doesn't mean you like the other any less. So, OK, it's not a review, just felt the need to defend it. If you walk in expecting the Mack, you clearly didn't read the back of the box.
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