Comedy ·Family · United States of America · 1982 · 1h 42m

The Toy

Director

Cast

Richard Pryor as Jack Brown Jackie Gleason as Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates Ned Beatty as Sydney Morehouse Scott Schwartz as Eric Bates Teresa Ganzel as Fancy Bates Wilfrid Hyde-White as Barkley

Crew

László Kovács — Director of Photography Richard A. Harris — Editor Michael A. Stevenson — Editor Patrick Williams — Original Music Composer Carol Sobieski — Screenplay Phil Feldman — Producer

Tagline

When Jackie Gleason told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all...Richard Pryor.

Synopsis

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.

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