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The Toy (1982)
Directed by Richard Donner
“When Jackie Gleason told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all...Richard Pryor.”
Comedy, Family · 1h 42m
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
Cast
Richard Pryor
Jack Brown
Jackie Gleason
Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Ned Beatty
Sydney Morehouse
Scott Schwartz
Eric Bates
Teresa Ganzel
Fancy Bates
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Barkley
Tony King
Clifford
Annazette Chase
Angela
Don Hood
O'Brien
Karen Leslie-Lyttle
Fraulein
Virginia Capers
Ruby Simpson
Steve Kahan
State Trooper
Crew
- Director
- Richard Donner
- Screenplay
- Carol Sobieski
- Director of Photography
- László Kovács
- Original Music Composer
- Patrick Williams
- Editor
- Richard A. Harris, Michael A. Stevenson
- Producer
- Phil Feldman, Ray Stark
Details
- Release date
- 1982-12-10
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Comedy, Family
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- German, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Delphi Films, Columbia Pictures, Rastar Productions
- Budget
- $28,000,000
- Box office
- $47,118,057