Which Way Is Up?

my dad kept rewinding this movie and it took us three hours to finish. we watched it at 10 am and he was already a half a bottle of wine deep and did not offer me any

kira

Maybe if Pryor had played a dozen characters?

teamgal

Richard Pryor plays three separate roles in this 70's comedy involving comic takes on adultery, sexism, racism and homophobia. These 'comic' takes on the themes may have been fine for a colored comedy in 1977, but today it's more of a show of how thick-skinned folks had to…

𝕭laze the 𝓐ction 𝕵unkie

In this one you get Richard Pryor in three roles. This seems like it was meant to be a comedy .....but there are few laughs in this one. Maybe 38 years ago this was funny stuff.....but not in 2015. I enjoyed the first 30 minutes of this one as the movie was offering up…

UltimateMovieRankings

Which Way is Up (1977) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi and tells the tale of a small town man who decides wealth can be achieved through joining his labor union. He is quickly promoted and sent to the city to be a key representative. He leaves his wife in the small…

Kevin_Robbins

Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor and ….Richard Pryor??? I don’t know much about his politics, but this is the second Pryor movie I’ve seen about labor unions that’s complex and human. I’m glad I knew that it wasn’t a zany comedy going in, because all the ads and posters make it…

Klon

"What doesn't have to do with love, passion, and desire?" - Leroy, - Schultz: https://boxd.it/TCNng A tier below Schultz' other work but there are flashes of brilliance that pierce through. The main problem, for me, in addition to a few script issues, is that the tone of…

{Todd}

I've always enjoyed and loved Richard Pryor's work. I need to listen to some of his stand up again.

Jeremiah Roxas

I've never seen Lina Wertmüller's source material The Seduction Of Mimi (I've only seen her Swept Away; she's been left behind by the canon in every possible way, it'd seem), but this plot makes almost zero sense as an American film. It's classic Italian sex farce material,…

Vadim Rizov