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Some Kind of Hero (1982)
Directed by Michael Pressman
“Richard Pryor is in a new kind of comedy... about some kind of hero... in some kind of mess.”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 37m
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Cast
Richard Pryor
Margot Kidder
Ray Sharkey
Ronny Cox
Lynne Moody
Olivia Cole
Paul Benjamin
Crew
- Director
- Michael Pressman
- Screenplay
- James Kirkwood Jr.
- Writer
- Robert Boris
- Novel
- James Kirkwood Jr.
- Director of Photography
- King Baggot
- Original Music Composer
- Patrick Williams
- Editor
- Christopher Greenbury
- Producer
- Howard W. Koch
Details
- Release date
- 1982-04-02
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $23,671,186