I Am Richard Pryor (2019)

On one hand, this movie does encourage me to seek out more of Pryor’s work that I haven’t yet seen, which is a good thing. On the other hand, it doesn’t really offer any new insight or much new footage regarding the man’s life. It spends too much time on his widow’s biased viewpoint and the views of people who never even met the guy. It focuses its scope almost entirely on the traumas he suffered during his less than ideal childhood, bits that were delved in greater detail by the man himself in his stand-up and Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling.