Tag: richard pryor
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‘The Mack’ Benefits from Its Director’s Disinterest in Romanticization
None of the movie is rendered with the heightened, pulpy quality of similarly conceived movies of its decade — 1972’s ‘Superfly’ and 1975’s ‘Dolemite’ come to mind — even when some of its dialogue is unintentionally funny.
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‘Blue Collar”s Frankness Takes You Aback
‘Blue Collar’ doesn’t end on a hopeful note akin to the more widely seen, and still-good, mainstream unionization drama ‘Norma Rae,’ which came out the next year. It wades in, and stays put in, the hell of working a hard, badly paying job
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