Richard Pryor as a G.I. Joe who falls into the hands of the Viet Cong and, after years of holding out, signs a treasonous "confession" in order to procure medical aid for his dying cellmate, who dies anyway; returns home to find that his wife is in love with another man and has frittered away the family savings on a business venture, and that his mother has had a stroke and has run up thousands of dollars of hospital bills; sets out on a new career as a stick-up artist. Most of this is played as though there is no particular pressure to find anything comical in it. The prevailing poignance, however, is not seen as any barrier to playing a scene here and there as the gooniest sort of burlesque. The tonal effect is something like the occasional cracks in the male voice on the threshold of adolescence -- only not so humorous. With Ray Sharkey, Ronny Cox, and Margot Kidder; directed by Michael Pressman. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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