| Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | |
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| Directed by | Joe Layton |
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| Produced by | Richard Pryor |
| Starring | Richard Pryor |
| Cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
| Edited by | Sheldon Kahn |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million[1] |
| Box office | $36,299,720[2]($115 million in 2023 dollars)[3] |
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip is a 1982 American stand-up comedy film directed by Joe Layton. The film stars and was produced by Richard Pryor, who also wrote the film with Paul Mooney. The film is released alongside Pryor's album of the same name in 1982, and was the most financially lucrative of the comedian's concert films. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and of the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980.
- ^ RICHARD PRYOR: AT 41, MAKING A YOU-TURN?: RICHARD PRYOR: SECOND LOOK AT LIFE Lee, Grant. Los Angeles Times 1 Apr 1982: j1
- ^ "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.