Live on the Sunset Strip
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767828123
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
ISBN: 0767828127
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 11, 2000
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 19120
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 12, 1982
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Comedic genius richard pryor explores various topics as well as his own personal tragedies in this hysterical yet emotionally stirring concert performance. Special features: subitles in english and spanish production notes interactive menus theatrical trailer scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/27/2007 Starring: Richard Pryor Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
Taken together, Richard Pryor's concert films, the essential Live in Concert, the virtuoso Live on the Sunset Strip, and even the lesser Here and Now, provide a more incisive autobiographical portrait of the groundbreaking comedian than the fictionalized Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. In Sunset Strip, Pryor relates two life-changing experiences. The first is his trip to 'the motherland,' Africa. As funny as is the routine in which Pryor gives voice to a couple of cheetahs poised to prey on unsuspecting gazelles, he brings the audience up short with a moving revelation that leads him to forswear ever again calling another black person the 'N-word.' The second, of course, is his near-fatal freebasing accident, which Pryor at first jokingly passes off as an accident involving milk and cookies. Then, he takes the audience step by harrowing step through his growing cocaine addiction (abetted by his untrustworthy pipe which speaks to him in reassuring tones), alienation from friends, including the formidable Jim Brown ('Whatcha gonna do?'), the explosion that resulted in third-degree burns over the upper half of his body, and finally, the agonizing rehab. It is even more unflinching and savagely funny than his Live in Concert routine about his heart attack. Other memorable bits include his experiences as a 19-year-old stand-up comedian working at a Mafia-owned club, a monologue from one of his signature characters, Mudbone, and his visit to a penitentiary while filming Stir Crazy. Sunset Strip captures Pryor's triumphant return to the stage. He is a survivor, unbowed, winning this round over the demons that plagued him throughout his career. --Donald Liebenson
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- Old but goodLove this one. Must've bought it half-a-dozen times. Everybody wants one and they take it from me.
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- That negro's hilarious!Peoria,Illinois-born Richard Pryor delivers another hilarious comedy routine filled with profanity ... Read More
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- The KingRichard Pryor may be the funniest man to ever grab a mike on stage. This set has some moments that ... Read More
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- MasterfulPryor in brilliant form. Once again displaying his virtuoso skills of mimicry and an honesty most comics ... Read More
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- Ad Hoc HumorPryor is obviously a skilled comedian. He has the audience eating out of his hand from beginning to end. ... Read More
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