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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (1986)

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Popular African-American comedian Jo Jo Dancer is severely burned while free-basing cocaine. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. While hovering between life and death, Dancer flashes back to his childhood, when he grew up in a brothel. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. Dancer decides to become a comic, but has a great many difficulties rising to stardom until he begins making scatological

R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Drama, Comedy

Rocco Urbisci, Paul Mooney, Richard Pryor, Rocco Urbishi

Feb 19, 2002

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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (6) | DVD (5)

Awesome!

October 11, 2008 Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Completely forgettable

January 23, 2004 Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

The sorrow is real, the pity is palpable - but Richard Pryor should have let someone else film his life story.

August 3, 2002 Comment
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

The film is only able to give the slightest insight into a complicated life, but it is still worthwhile as an inside look at one of entertainment's most important figures.

April 24, 2002 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

If it hadn't been directed by its subject, it would have been a great disservice. As such, it's just a major disappointment.

March 11, 2002 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling

It isn't the best directed film, but the film excels most when Pryor is allowed to illustrate very painful, true elements from his life (he maintains this film isn't autobiographical, but since he's pretty much the only black comedian raised in a brothel with several wives, a drug issue, and an accident that set him on

January 13, 2012

The somewhat true/somewhat made up audiobiography movie about the late, GREAT Richard Pryor. Parts of this movie are at various turns: Funny, painful, insightful, and obvious BS. So...I give this the rating it deserves...a mixed one for a mixed movie. Still, worth a watch until the Bio Pic happens.

January 4, 2008
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