The Toy

The Toy

The Toy

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1982•102 min•ComedyFamily

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Richard Pryor

Jack Brown

Jackie Gleason

Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates

Ned Beatty

Sydney Morehouse

Scott Schwartz

Eric Bates

Teresa Ganzel

Fancy Bates

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Barkley

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On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

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