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The Toy

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

1982 · PG · 1h 42m

Directed by Richard Donner

5.9

TMDB audience score
237 votes, out of 10

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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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Cast

  • Richard Pryor
    Jack Brown

  • Jackie Gleason
    Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates

  • Ned Beatty
    Sydney Morehouse

  • Teresa Ganzel
    Fancy Bates

  • Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Barkley

  • Tony King
    Clifford

  • Annazette Chase
    Angela

  • Don Hood
    O'Brien

  • Karen Leslie-Lyttle
    Fraulein

  • Virginia Capers
    Ruby Simpson

  • Steve Kahan
    State Trooper

  • B.J. Hopper
    Geffran

  • Ray Spruell
    Senator Newcomb

  • Stocker Fontelieu
    District Attorney Russell

  • Robert Adams
    Store Executive