Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Comedy, Drama · 1986R

JO JO DANCER, YOUR LIFE IS CALLING stars Richard Pryor as a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity and the bottom rung of his self-esteem. Jo Jo has it all, Hollywood stardom, movie roles, platinum records. But the price he pays for fame and fortune is too great. He buckles under the pressures of success and suffers a life-threatening accident. Forced to examine his life, the film follows Jo Jo's compelling past through four decades from his upbringing in a brothel, to classic comedy performances in cellar nightclubs, to ultimate stardom as a rowdy, irreverent comic. This film marks Pryor's directing debut with his personal vision of one man's odyssey of triumph and tragedy.

Starring

John A. Alonzo, Richard Pryor, Marilyn Vance, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Tony Lloyd, John G. Wilson, Fay Hauser, Barbara Williams, Richard Pryor

Director

Richard Pryor