Another You
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Maurice Phillips
Gene Wilder
Richard Pryor
Mercedes Ruehl
Gil Mandelik
Tabi Cooper
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Synopsis
A comedy about a con artist--assigned through a court order to do "community service"--who must help a chronic liar (recently released from a sanitorium) begin a new life in New York City. The relationship grows more complicated and hilarious as cons, lies and mulitple identities are woven together.
Director
Maurice Phillips
Cast
Gene Wilder
Richard Pryor
Mercedes Ruehl
Gil Mandelik
Tabi Cooper
Jerry Houser
Romy Rosemont
Seppo Viljanen
Tammy Hanson
Dennis O'sullivan
Giancarlo Scandiuzzi
Annie O'donnell
Elsa Raven
Peter Michael Goetz
Bill Washington
Dennis Washington
Phil Rubenstein
Biff Yeager
Lothar Beer
Gianni Russo
Billy Beck
Andy Summers
Willi Vollerthun
Kevin Pollak
Peter Schuck
Gail Cameron
Stephen Lang
Catherine E. Coulson
James W Slater
Norman Glasser
Sheila M Howard
Kandis Chappell
Vincent Schiavelli
Craig Richard Nelson
Maurice Phillips
Sheryl Bernstein
Vanessa Williams
Peter Vogel
Crew
Harold Adamson
Steve Adcock
Gary Anderson
Robert Anderson
Susan Armenti
Carolyn J Bahr
Serena A Baker
Keith Bauer
Richard Baum
Carol Bawer
Bill W Benton
Robert R. Benton
Steve Berens
James Bergmann
Gary Blufer
Kareen Boursier
Bob Bradshaw
Daniel B Briggs
Otie Brown
John P Bruce
Richard Burton
Rodney Byrd
Jan A Campbell
William A Campbell
Crew Chamberlain
Marjorie K Chan
Karen Cohen
John C Cole
Allison Cowitt
Louis D'esposito
Louis D'esposito
Burt Dalton
Eliot Daniel
Annie M Demille
Anthony Desposito
Alan Disler
Gordon Ecker
Brad Edmiston
John Ellingwood
John Michael Fanaris
Mike Fenton
Dorothy Fields
Liam Finn
Ken Fisher
Ruth Fueglistaller
Ruth Fueglistaller
Gerald Gadette
Leslie Gaulin
Steven Gerrior
Hector Gika
Dick Girod
Norman Glasser
Tom Glazer
Allison Gordon
Mack Gordon
Mark C Grech
Richard Alan Greenberg
Charles Gross
Amy Henkels
Karen D Higgins
Dennis M Hill
James B Hill
Timothy Hillman
Suzanne Hines
Sean Hobin
Diane Hubner
Holly Huckins
Ruth Irvine
Dion Jackson
Scott D Jackson
Terry Jackson
Tobie Jackson
J J Jenkins
Victor J Kemper
Victor J Kemper
George Kohut
Russ Krasnoff
John Kwiatkowski
Gene Lebell
Lee Lemont
John Leveque
Tony Lloyd
Marc Madnick
Linda Matthews
Jennifer Mcginnis
Jimmy Mchugh
Stacey S Mcintosh
Richard Mckenzie
Alvin Mears
Ray F Mercer
Anthony R Milch
Ruth Myers
Bruce Nazarian
Randy Nolen
Christine M Norton
Ernie Orsatti
Noon Orsatti
Sheila Pressley
Elizabeth Pryor
Katherine Quittner
Marcia Reed
Reid Reilich
Bettyanne Roberts
Kenny Roberts
Kenny Roberts
Kenny Roberts
Mark Romano
Bobby Rose
Erich Rose
Clifford T E Roseman
Judi Rosner
Michael A Ruscio
Liz Ryan
Tim Salmon
Dennis Sands
Bruce Schluter
Steve Schwalbe
Carol Schwartz
Susan Carol Schwary
Mark A Seay
Kim Secrist
Sam Seig
Stephen Shaver
Alan K Shultz
Frank Soronow
Loring I Spicer
Vikki Spracklen
Ben Starkman
Ziggy Steinberg
Ziggy Steinberg
John J Stevens
Leeann Stonebreaker
Jim Stuebe
Becky Sullivan
Andy Summers
Andy Summers
Shawn Sykora
Russ Tanaka
Michael Van Dyke
Sam Vaughon
Harry Warren
Dennis Washington
Gregory H Watkins
Dan Weisberg
Allan Wertheim
Allan Wertheim
Keith Wester
Monty Westmore
Bryce G Williams
Karen Wookey
Richard Wyatt
Richard E Yawn
Ted Zachary
Elizabeth Ziegler
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Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
He was born Richard Thomas Pryor III on December 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois. By all accounts, his childhood was a difficult one. His mother was a prostitute and his grandmother ran a brothel. His father was rarely around and when he was, he would physically abuse him. From a young age, Pryor knew that humor was his weapon of choice to cut through all the swath he came across and would confront in his life.
After high school, he enlisted in the Army for a two-year stint (1958-60). When he was discharged (honorably!) he concentrated on stand-up comedy and worked in a series of nightclubs before relocating to New York City in 1963. In 1964, he made his television debut when he was given a slot on the variety program On Broadway Tonight. His routine, though hardly the groundbreaking material we would witness in later years, was very well received, and in the late '60s Pryor found more television work: Toast of the Town, The Wild Wild West, The Mod Squad ; and was cast in a two movies: The Busy Body (1967) with Sid Caesar; and Wild in the Streets (1968) a cartoonish political fantasy about the internment of all American citizens over 30.
Pryor's career really didn't ignite until the '70s. His stand up act became raunchier and more politically motivated as he touched on issued of race, failed relationships, drug addiction, and street crimes. His movie roles became far more captivating in the process: the piano man in Lady Sings the Blues (1972); as a wise-talking hustler in a pair of slick urban thrillers: The Mack (1973) and Uptown Saturday Night (1974); the gregarious Daddy Rich in Car Wash; his first pairing with Gene Wilder as Grover, the car thief who helps stops a runaway train in his first real box office smash Silver Streak (both 1976); and for many critics, his finest dramatic performance as a factory worker on the edge of depression in Paul Schrader's excellent working class drama Blue Collar (1978).
On a personal level, his drug dependency problem worsened, and on June 9, 1980, near tragedy struck when he caught fire while free-basing cocaine. Pryor later admitted that the incident, was, in fact, a suicide attempt, and that his management company created the lie for the press in hopes of protecting him. Fortunately, Pryor had three films in the can that all achieved some level of financial success soon after his setback: another pairing with Gene Wilder in the prison comedy Stir Crazy (1980); a blisteringly funny cameo as God who flips off Andy Kaufman in the warped religious satire In God We Tru$t (1980); an a ex-con helping a social worker (Cicely Tyson) with her foster charges in Bustin' Loose (1981). He capped his recovery with Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), a first-rate documentation of the comic's genius performed in front of a raucous live audience.
In 1983, Pryor signed a $40 million, five-year contract with Columbia Pictures. For many fans and critics, this was the beginning of his downslide. His next few films: The Toy, Superman III (both 1983), and Brewster's Millions (1985) were just tiresome, mediocre comedies. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (1986), was his only attempt at producing, directing, and acting, and the film, which was an ambitious autobiographical account of a his life and career, was a box-office disappointment. He spent the remainder of the '80s in middling fare: Condition Critical (1987), Moving; a third pairing with Gene Wilder in See No Evil, Hear No Evil; and his only teaming with Eddie Murphy in Harlem Nights (1989).
In 1986, Pryor was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system that curtailed both his personal appearances and his gift for physical comedy in his latter films. By the '90s, little was seen of Pryor, but in 1995, he made a courageous comeback on television when he guest starred on Chicago Hope as an embittered multiple sclerosis patient. His performance earned him an Emmy nomination and he was cast in a few more films: Mad Dog Time (1996), Lost Highway (1997), but his physical ailments prohibited him from performing on a regular basis. In 1998, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington gave Pryor the first Mark Twain Prize for humor. It was fitting tribute for a man who had given so much honesty and innovation in the field of comedy. Pryor is survived by his wife, Jennifer Lee; his sons Richard and Steven; and daughters Elizabeth, Rain and Renee.
by Michael T. Toole
Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
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Released in United States on Video January 8, 1992
Released in United States Summer July 26, 1991
Maurice Phillips replaced Peter Bogdanovich as director late October 1990.
Began shooting September 17, 1990.
Completed shooting January 30, 1991.
Released in United States on Video January 8, 1992
Released in United States Summer July 26, 1991