The Toy
Film1982102 min5.9/10 on TMDB
Directed by Richard Donner
When Jackie Gleason told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all...Richard Pryor.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Richard PryorJack Brown
Jackie GleasonUlysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Ned BeattySydney Morehouse
Scott SchwartzEric Bates
Teresa GanzelFancy Bates
Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteBarkley
Tony KingClifford
Annazette ChaseAngela
Don HoodO'Brien
Karen Leslie-LyttleFraulein
Virginia CapersRuby Simpson
Steve KahanState TrooperExplore the crew
- Director
- Richard Donner
- Producer
- Phil Feldman
- Screenplay
- Carol Sobieski
- Director of Photography
- László Kovács
- Editor
- Michael A. Stevenson
- Editor
- Richard A. Harris
- Original Music Composer
- Patrick Williams
- Producer
- Ray Stark