Richard Pryor

Some say the destiny of man has always been in his own hands. Given his superior intellect through eons of evolution, he remains unchallenged on Earth. What he is, what he thinks, what he does and where he wants to go are all indisputable facts totally within his control, right? Not so fast. He is about to find out that there are others in the universe that have a lot more to say about him and his ultimate destiny. Many have also said that they know...

Richard Pryor stars as Arlo Pear, a mass-transit engineer who, along with his family, faces the horrors of relocating from his lifelong home in New Jersey. After losing the position he has held for 14 years, Pear receives an offer for a dream job in Boise, Idaho. There is just one catch: The new job will require Pear and his family to face the one thing they dread most--Moving.

Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.

U.S. agent Nick Allen (Billy Dee Williams) has his own idea about how to fight a war on drugs: go to the source...and cut the big-time traffickers down. Embittered over the drug-related death of his teenage daughter, Nick sets out to do just that. With stone-cold intensity, he locates and trains a dirty half-dozen recruits for a commando raid on the kingpins of a French drug syndicate. Each recruit has his or her own reason for being part of the death...

Television special commemorating record company Motown's 25th anniversary, featuring performances and interviews.

Gleason is U.S. Bates, a megalomaniac millionaire who owns most of south central Louisiana. Pryor is Jack Brown, a former journalist who has worked his way down the vocational ladder to the position of janitor in Bates' department store. Bates' son, Eric, selects an elaborate toy--Jack Brown--and the relationship teaches Eric more about life than fun and games.

Joe is an ex-con given a second chance after violating his parole. He has been hired by a schoolteacher to drive a group of special kids to their new home. Joe's a bit unnerved by their mental problems, but soon they bond and become friends.

A wild action comedy about a murder mystery aboard a cross-country train.

The dynamic film of the 1972 Los Angeles event attended by over 100,000 concertgoers and first billed as the 'black Woodstock, ' gets ya plenty. Its performances burn with vitality. Its forays into the neighborhood are a time capsule of pride and pain. And the Richard Pryor comedy riffs that provide the film's running commentary are a treasure all by themselves.

Meet Wally and Dave--Wally is blind, Dave is deaf, and now they're both prime suspects in a murder they didn't commit.