Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

A comic with one eye on his audience and another eye on the truth.

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Release Date

5/2/1986

Runtime

97 mins

Overview

Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$18,034,150

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A darkly introspective portrait of a comedian confronting the hollow core beneath his success, told through fragmented memories as he hovers between life and death. It's unflinching about pain and addiction while wrestling with whether survival itself is worth the struggle.

Mood

MelancholicContemplativeDefiantHopeful

Themes

AddictionComing of ageAmbitionRedemptionIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

AddictionGraphic violence

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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) directed by Richard Pryor | FirstCinema