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.”
19821h 42mComedy · Family
Released
December 10, 1982
TMDB Score
59% match · 237 votes
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About the Movie
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.
DirectorRichard Donner
- Released
- December 10, 1982
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $28.0M
- Box office
- $47.1M
- Studios
- Delphi Films, Columbia Pictures, Rastar Productions
Top Billed Cast
Richard Pryor
Jack Brown
Jackie Gleason
Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Ned Beatty
Sydney Morehouse
Scott Schwartz
Eric Bates
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
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