Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a film of genre Drama directed by Richard Pryor released in USA on 2 may 1986 with Debbie Allen
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 semi-autobiographical film starring Richard Pryor. This was the first and only feature film he directed (although he is credited as such on the screen version of Richard Pryor: Here and Now).Synopsis
Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian who has severely burned himself while freebasing cocaine. The film came out after Pryor had set himself on fire in an attempted suicide.
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