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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 f...( read more
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Very good story, interesting characters, good acting, and it has comedy. I really enjoyed this movie.
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.
The Reverend is the funniest part of this movie but it's a classic. I guess I sometimes feel like him.
The plotline of this Richard Pryor vehicle seems rather loose and unfocused, but it doesn't matter as the comedy sequences are absolutely hilarious.
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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