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The Richard Pryor 4-Movie Collection
The laughs are non-stop in this 4-movie comedy collection, featuring Which Way Is Up? , Brewster's Million , Car Wash and Bustin' Loose . Widely considered the "funniest man alive," Richard Pryor stars in one side-splitting romp after another in these timeless classics that will have your rolling from beginning to end.
Bustin' Loose
Richard Pryor stars in this wild, wacky and warmhearted road movie with a difference, which later inspired a TV series. When budget cuts close a children's home in Philadelphia, Vivian Perry (Emmy® Award winner Cicely Tyson) decides to help eight special-education students by taking them to her aunt's farm outside Seattle. In desperate need of a driver/mechanic for the bus, she teams up with Joe Braxton (Pryor), an equally desperate ex-con who hates women and children. Fueled by Roberta Flack's...
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around. It's a showdown of brains over booby traps and sportsmanship over racial segregation as Bingo Long's All-Stars...
Which Way is Up?
Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track. The fun kicks into high gear when Leroy moves from labor to management. He tries to juggle his wife and his girlfriend, but the only peace he can find...
The Wiz
Ease on down the yellow-brick road with The Wiz, starring superstars Diana Ross and Michael Jackson! Relive all of the magic of this beloved musical when Dorothy is whisked away to the enchanting wonderland of Oz, where she encounters the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Lion. The Wiz features spectacular musical numbers from legendary producer Quincy Jones and an all-star cast including Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and Ted Ross.
Car Wash
Everybody is cleaning up and getting down in the comedy Car Wash - the first "disco slacker" movie from the decade that brought you the tube top, the polyester suit and lots of good times. It's just a typical day in the lives of the employees, customers and passersby of a Los Angeles car wash - but what a day! There's a would-be robbery… an assembly line of the weirdest, baddest, shadiest characters you've ever met… and lots of booty-bumping music to pass the hours until quitting time...
Brewster's Millions
Richard Pryor is Montgomery Brewster, a minor league baseball pitcher who discovers he has to blow $30 million in 30 days as a condition to inherit a much greater fortune. Here's the catch: He will forfeit everything if he reveals to a soul the real reason he seems to be throwing away all that cash. With the help of his pal Spike (John Candy), they set off on a frantic spending spree the likes of which would bring any self-respecting accountant to his knees.
Blue Collar
Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama, Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash. Their unexpected swipe suddenly envelopes the three autoworkers in a desperate fight against corruption and organized crime.
The Wiz / The Wiz Live! Musical Double Feature
The Wiz : Featuring spectacular musical numbers with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Richard Pryor, experience the magic of The Wiz when Dorothy is whisked away to the enchanting wonderland of Oz. The Wiz Live! : Starring Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, David Alan Grier, and Ne-Yo, NBC's musical television production of The Wiz Live! stays true to the groundbreaking Broadway show that put a vivid urban spin on the land of Oz, get ready for a fresh, eye-popping new trip down the yellow brick road.
Comedy Greats Spotlight Collection (National Lampoon's Animal House / The Blues Brothers / The Jerk / Car Wash)
National Lampoon's Animal House John Belushi stars in this ultimate college movie that follows the hilarious adventures of the Delta House fraternity as they take on food fights, toga parties and the entire female student body. The Blues Brothers John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two brothers trying to raise money for an orphanage by taking their blues band back on the road. The Jerk Steve Martin stars in this wacky comedy hit about the white son of poor black...