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Plot: 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 f...( read more read more... )or 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 Keogh

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  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 12, 2008
    Very good story, interesting characters, good acting, and it has comedy. I really enjoyed this movie.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 10, 2008
    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.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 17, 2007
    The Reverend is the funniest part of this movie but it's a classic. I guess I sometimes feel like him.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 23, 2007
    The plotline of this Richard Pryor vehicle seems rather loose and unfocused, but it doesn't matter as the comedy sequences are absolutely hilarious.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 15, 2007
    This is one of my all time favorites! Richard Pryor at his best! The Nutty Professor, Norbit, etc. would not have been a hit if it were not for this movie!

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