WHICH WAY IS UP? (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to leave his wife and family behind which also includes Leroy's father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles. Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home. He is a manager at the company but he is now distant from his former pals. He meets and falls in love with Vanetta who is a labor organizer which leaves him splitting time between his wife Annie Mae and Vanetta. When Leroy finds out that the Reverend Lenox Thomas (also played by Pryor) has got his wife pregnant while he was absent, he then make the moves on the reverend's wife
• Cast: Diane Rodriguez, Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Hank Robinson, Blair Burrows, Carmen Filpi, Bebe Drake, Tanya Lynne Lee, Tim Thomerson, DeWayne Jessie, Margaret Avery, Morgan Woodward, Marilyn Coleman, Gloria Edwards, Ernesto Hernández, Morgan Roberts, Dolph Sweet, Daniel Valdez, Luis Valdez, Marc Alaimo, Tony Alvarenga, Victor Argo, Pat Ast, Kathy Cronkite, Ron Cummins, Julie Dorman, Evelyn Dutton, Darrell Giddens, Cheryl Harvey, Louise Johnson, Sidney Lanier, Terence Locke, Ted Markland, Ralph Montgomery, Paul Mooney, Shane Mooney, Yvonne Mooney, Harry Northup, Dennis O'Flaherty, Korla Pandit, Clifford A. Pellow, Mark Robin, Eddie Smith, Spo-De-Odee, Bob Terhune, Carol Trost, Joe Turkel, Angela Wilson, Hank Worden, Michael Schultz, Cecil Brown, Sonny Gordon, Carl Gottlieb, Steve Krantz
• Director: Michael Schultz
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Universal Studios
• Media Format: Movie