The Toy poster

The Toy

19821h 42mComedy · Family
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.”

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Synopsis

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.

Cast

Richard Pryor·Jack Brown
Jackie Gleason·Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
Ned Beatty·Sydney Morehouse
Scott Schwartz·Eric Bates
Teresa Ganzel·Fancy Bates
Wilfrid Hyde-White·Barkley
Tony King·Clifford
Annazette Chase·Angela
Don Hood·O'Brien
Karen Leslie-Lyttle·Fraulein