Which Way Is Up?

Which Way Is Up?

94 mins | Comedy | Nov. 4, 1977

Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.

Which Way Is Up?

94 mins | Comedy | Nov. 4, 1977

Which Way Is Up?
Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Which Way Is Up?
Directors Michael Schultz
Writers Cecil Brown, Sonny Gordon, Lina Wertmüller, Carl Gottlieb

Cast

Richard Pryor

as Leroy Jones/Rufus Jones/Rev. Lenox Thoma

Lonette McKee

as Vanetta

Margaret Avery

as Annie Mae

Morgan Woodward

as Mr. Mann

Marilyn Coleman

as Sister Sarah

Joe Turkel

as Harry Boatwright

Kathy Cronkite

as Photographer

Diane Rodriguez

as Estrella Reyes