Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
8.6 /10 1 Votes
91% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Documentary Duration Language English | 8.3/10 IMDb Director Jeff Margolis Initial DVD release August 25, 1998 Writer Richard Pryor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 1979 Sequel Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip Cast Richard Pryor, Patti LaBelle Similar movies Bill Hicks: Bill Loses it in Chicago , Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian , Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA , George Carlin: Back in Town , Bill Hicks: Relentless , Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 American stand-up comedy film starring Richard Pryor and directed by Jeff Margolis. Pryor's performance earned him a 5th place nomination for the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor.
Production
The film was shot in Long Beach, California on December 10, 1978, it was produced and distributed independently and the first full-length, feature movie consisting of only stand-up comedy, often hailed as one of the seminal and most influential recorded stand-up performances of the modern era. Eddie Murphy has called it "the single greatest stand-up performance ever captured on film."
In her review of Richard Pryor Live in Concert, Pauline Kael commented, "Probably the greatest of all recorded-performance films. Pryor had characters and voices bursting out of him .... Watching this mysteriously original physical comedian you can't account for his gift and everything he does seems to be for the first time."
An album version was released in 1978 titled Wanted: Live in Concert. The film is owned by Gary P. Biller.
References
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