As director Richard Linklater notedduring a screening in 2019,Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling is a “brave” film that’s been unjustly overlooked, even by Pryor fans.

In his memoir,Room to Dream, Lynch wrote of the comedian, “Richard Pryor is someone else I saw on a talk show and kind of fell in love with. He’d been through a lot in his life but he had a ...

So a similar premise, but obviously, the new movie has a few nuances with the plot lines. If you’re interested in watching Pryor’s Brewster's Millions, you’ll have to rent it on a service ...

Pryor calls himself Jo Jo Dancer in the movie and relocates the story to Ohio (despite filming in Peoria), but by 1986, the contours of his history were well known.