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Name: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Released: 1986-5-2
Cast: Debbie Allen, Richard Pryor, Wings Hauser, Dennis Farina

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

R
1h 37m
1986

50%

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JO JO DANCER, YOUR LIFE IS CALLING stars Richard Pryor as a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity and the bottom rung of his self-esteem. Jo Jo has it all, Hollywood stardom, movie roles, platinum records. But the price he pays for fame and fortune is too great. He buckles under the pressures of success and suffers a life-threatening accident. Forced to examine his life, the film follows Jo Jo's compelling past through four decades from his upbringing in a brothel, to classic comedy performances in cellar nightclubs, to ultimate stardom as a rowdy, irreverent comic. This film marks Pryor's directing debut with his personal vision of one man's odyssey of triumph and tragedy.

Director:

Richard Pryor

Producer:

Richard Pryor

Writer:

Richard Pryor, Rocco Urbisci

Cast:

Debbie Allen, Richard Pryor, Wings Hauser, Dennis Farina

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Reviews

Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Peter Rainer

Watching it is like overhearing the patter of a close friend coming out of a delirium.

A disappointing waste of talented actors.

Above all, Pryor emphasizes... Jo Jo's elusive selfhood-the fundamental problem of what performers who feel fully alive only while onstage or on camera do with the rest of their time.

It's much better than its reputation.

First-time filmmaker Pryor delivers a predominantly tedious drama that's made all-the-more interminable by a hopelessly uninvolving structure...

November 25, 2020

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