Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
Infobox_Film
name=Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
caption = The movie cover for "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling".
imdb_id=0091295
writer=Rocco Urbisci
Paul Mooney
Richard Pryor
starring=Richard Pryor
Debbie Allen
director=Richard Pryor
music=Herbie Hancock | distributor=Columbia Pictures
released=May 2, 1986
runtime=97 min.
language=English
movie_series=
awards=
producer=Richard Pryor
budget= |
"Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling" is a 1986 film starring Richard Pryor.
Though Pryor insisted the film was not autobiographical [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=26230 movies2.nytimes.com] ] , Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian who has severely burned himself in a drug incident. The film came out after Pryor had severely burned himself while freebasing cocaine in 1980.
As Dancer lies hospitalized in a coma, his spiritual alter ego revisits his life, from growing up in a brothel as a child and struggling to beat the long odds to become a top rated comedian. However, his success leads to extensive drug use and womanizing that takes its toll on his life. Jo Jo's spirit watches and attempts to convince his past self to end the cycle of self destruction.The earlier parts of the film, during Jo Jo's childhood were filmed in Pryor's hometown of Peoria, Illinois.
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Box Office Leaders USA
before = Legend
date = May 4
date2 = May 11
year = 1986
after = Short Circuit
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