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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

1986

Biography / Comedy / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 2336 2.3K

Plot summary

Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.

Director

Richard Pryor Photo
Richard Pryor

Top cast

Michael Ironside Photo
Michael Ironside as Detective Lawrence
Richard Pryor Photo
Richard Pryor as Jo Jo Dancer / Alter Ego
Art Evans Photo
Art Evans as Arturo
Dennis Farina Photo
Dennis Farina as Freddy
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896.89 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 5
1.62 GB
1920*804
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 16
4.38 GB
3840*1604
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by pmtelefon 7 / 10

A near miss.

I've always enjoyed "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling" but it does have more than its fair share of flaws. The movie just doesn't work as well as it should have. Maybe Richard Pryor should have handed the direction off to a seasoned veteran rather than trying to do it himself. I don't know. The alter-ego stuff works well in some scenes and not that well in others. Visually the alter-ego is almost never convincing. "Jo Jo Dancer" is well acted but it seems to be longer than it actually is. The scenes with young Jo Jo are great. The "accident" scene is heartbreaking. Much of the stand up stuff isn't that good, especially Jo Jo's strip scene (ouch). I still watch this movie from time to time but it's just not completely satisfying. (I saw "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling" in the theater when it first came out.)
Reviewed by elo-equipamentos 7 / 10

An enlighten autobiography of a legendary Richard Pryor!!!

I won't conceal that Richard Pryor is one my favorite comic actor ever, all those fabulous funny comedies side by side with Gene Wilder are priceless, his acerbic and harsh words mocking their own black people shaken the system in America, after reaches at stardom as best stand up comic, he made a huge successful career as actor, in this autobiography after virtually committed suicide burning himself doped in drugs and booze.Aiming for starting over he managed a rereading of his personal life since the beginning as boy living with his grandmother and his early steps in show business aid by Satin Doll and passing by several marriages, thru his spirit he saw his own mistakes and bearing in mind how should made something different in order to reroute his tragic life, it somehow sheds lights in obscure past of Pryor life, as how he starting drugs himself in a poisoned environment and wrong wives and companions, then he entered in merry-go-round of self-destruction that let him attempts against own life.Wrote, produced and directed by Pryor it sounds as crying for help, obviously later it proved be fruitless, due he was back at wrong road again, even so this failure picture had many accurate elements concerning Pryor's persona, worthwhile a look, unfortunately this picture didn't arrive here in any format.Thanks for reading.Resume:First watch: 1989 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.5.
Reviewed by Squonk 6 / 10

Not great...but certainly brave.

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