| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 10, 1982 |
Starring:
Annazette Chase, Don Hood, Jackie Gleason, Karen Leslie-Lyttle, Ned Beatty, Richard Pryor, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Tony King, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Summary:
An underemployed reporter (Richard Pryor) finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
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The Toy would improve with a little tinkering. Still, it's surefire family fare. [10 Dec 1982, p.23]
The Toy, starring Richard Pryor, is a coarsened American remake of a deft French comedy of the same title, which starred Pierre Richard and passed this way five or six years ago. Fluctuating wildly between facetiousness and solicitude, the new version never comes close to reproducing the sane, lightweight charms of the original.
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The plot makes the casting look inspired. More than inane, it's offensive. [14 Dec 1982]
Comedy is no laughing matter; when a joke dies, the joker -- as well as the audience -- dies a little, too. At the end of Richard Pryor's latest comedy, The Toy, the viewer may require emergency medical attention. Shapeless, noisy, vulgar, sentimental and amateurish... [13 Dec 1982, p.83]
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