Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is a 1986 semiautobiographical 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.

As Dancer lies hospitalized in a coma, his spiritual alter ego revisits his life, from growing up in a brothel as a child and struggling to beat the long odds to become a toprated comedian. However, his success leads to extensive drug use and womanizing that takes its toll on his life. Jo Jos spirit watches and attempts to convince his past self to end the cycle of selfdestruction.Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling received mixed reviews from critics. It currently has a 55 percent Rotten rating on the movie review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. ........

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