Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (film)

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoe Layton
Written by
Produced byRichard Pryor
StarringRichard Pryor
CinematographyHaskell Wexler
Edited bySheldon Kahn
Production
companies
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 12, 1982 (1982-03-12) (United States)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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. It stars and was produced by Richard Pryor, who also wrote the screenplay with Paul Mooney. The film was released alongside his album of the same name in 1982, and the most financially lucrative of the comedian's concert films. The material includes Pryor's frank discussion of his drug addiction and the night that he caught on fire while freebasing cocaine in 1980.

  1. ^ RICHARD PRYOR: AT 41, MAKING A YOU-TURN?: RICHARD PRYOR: SECOND LOOK AT LIFE Lee, Grant. Los Angeles Times 1 Apr 1982: j1
  2. ^ "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  3. ^ 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.