Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 01/13/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Suitable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring
Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (
Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (
Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they are there the place is held-up and Steve's wallet is stolen. When Steve and Wardell learn that the wallet contains a winning lottery ticket, the friends go on a desperate search to find it. Shape Eye Washington (
Richard Prior), an incompetent private eye, is enlisted to aid them in their search through the criminal underworld where they come up against Geechie Dan Beauford (
Harry Belafonte) the mobster who runs the town. Belafonte, in a hilarious parody of
Marlon Brando in
The Godfather, steals the show. The movie was a huge success and led to two sequels,
Let's Do It Again and
A Piece of the Action, both also directed by Poitier.
~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide
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