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Home > Movies > Movie Features > I Am Richard Pryor (2019): Where To Watch This Documentary Online? What Is It About?

I Am Richard Pryor (2019): Where To Watch This Documentary Online? What Is It About?

by Shambhavee Singh
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 02:45 IST

The story of the life of Richard Pryor, a famous comedian and social satirist who lived from 1940 to 2005. He’s honest, irreverent, and biting humour broke down racial and social barriers.

I Am Richard Pryor was a new movie on March 12, 2019. Jesse James Miller directed it.

Plot

In recent years, Jesse James Miller’s I Am Richard Pryor is the second made-for-TV documentary on Richard Pryor. Omit the Logic has similar blind spots and absences. The film shows how childhood grief influenced his chaotic professional path and how his evolving political awareness led him to produce his best work. It’s a good introduction for new fans, while veteran followers may prefer his comedic albums. One of his five wives, Jennifer Lee Pryor executive, produced the documentary.

It was created by the same team that made I Am Heath Ledger, and I Am Chris Farley. That may explain several decisions in Pryor’s romantic life: This film only features one of Omit’s girlfriends. Perhaps it’s in line with Jimmie Walker’s assessment that Pryor never had girlfriends or spouses – no woman-dominated his life.

Except for his brothel-raised granny. Authors and fellow comedians say Pryor had to overlook his disreputable origins during his “whitebread” era when he followed Bill Cosby’s example. Henry Jaglom remembered giving Pryor LSD and had to stop him from leaping out a seventh-floor window. Then he realised Pryor’s suffering.

Pryor wouldn’t admit it for a time. Finally, after going offstage during a Las Vegas concert and breaking some professional bridges, the comic withdrew to Berkeley, California, where he met black intellectuals and political activists. He experimented with self-expression and was forever altered.

What’s Shown? : True Review

Miller shows how the new material revolutionised Pryor’s career. Miller earned Oscar talk for little film performances; he frightened off-network bosses; he “danced” with Hollywood, showing elements of his actual personality in major film roles while making himself digestible.

Lily Tomlin, Tiffany Haddish, and musician Greg Tate give insightful remarks on this balancing act. Still, comic Mike Epps holds back the least, channelling some of the wraths over racism and the timid American media that propelled Pryor to creative highs and personal lows. Pryor’s most renowned years include arrests, drug issues, and misconduct.

As in the previous documentary, we learn how editing helped create the most enduring narrative of this upheaval, Live on the Sunset Strip. Lee recalls how poorly some of the stuff went over live. Author Todd Boyd saw the final film as a magnum work before Pryor “transitioned” to a “more user-friendly” version of himself, making humiliating cameos in terrible, big-budget movies (like Superman III) before the sad multiple sclerosis diagnosis that terminated his career too soon.

Where Can You Watch It?

You can watch this documentary on Amazon Prime and rent it on Youtube.

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