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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 American biographical comedy-drama film directed, produced by and starring Richard Pryor, who also wrote the screenplay with Paul Mooney and Rocco Urbisci.
May 2, 1986 · Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling: Directed by Richard Pryor. With Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Fay Hauser. After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Richard Pryor
- 1986-05-02
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. Richard Pryor stars as Jo Jo Dancer, a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity and the bottom rung of his self-esteem.
- 97 min
- 27.6K
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Richard Pryor stars as Jo Jo, a comedian who faces death after a cocaine overdose. The film traces his life from childhood to stardom, with flashbacks, humor and drama.
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. 1986 · 1 hr 38 min. R. Drama · Comedy. A comedian at the peak of success and the pit of self-esteem buckles under the pressure and suffers an accident that forces him to reexamine his life. Subtitles: English.
- Richard Pryor
- January 1, 1986
- 97 min
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...
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- Comedy, Drama
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In this film that closely parallels his own life story, Richard Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian who has severely burned himself in a drug incident. As he lies unconscious in a hospital, his spiritual alter ego gets up and begins a journey of his own.