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Directors: Michael Pressman Actors:
Richard Pryor Margot Kidder Ray Sharkey Ronny Cox Lynne Moody Olivia Cole Paul Benjamin

Some Kind of Hero 1982

97 minutes

'Richard Pryor is in a new kind of comedy...about some kind of hero...in some kind of mess.'

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

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