The Toy

The Toy

1982 · 102 min · EN · PG · 5.8 (193 votes)
Dir. Richard Donner · Starring Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White · Music Patrick Williams

When U.S. Bates told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all... Jack Brown.

ComedyFamily

On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

VIBE

A classic 80s comedy with a heartwarming core. It's a feel-good story about an unlikely friendship forming between a wealthy child and a janitor, offering laughs and touching moments.

heartwarmingcomediclightheartednostalgicsteady80s family filmfish-out-of-watercomedy of mannersfriendshipclasschildhoodloneliness
department storerich kidtrophy wifeemployment terminationrichard pryor