Some Kind of Hero

★5.6

Richard Pryor is in a new kind of comedy... about some kind of hero... in some kind of mess.

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Michael Pressman

Director

James Kirkwood Jr.,James Kirkwood Jr.,Robert Boris

Writers

Mel Dellar,James Kirkwood Jr.,Lynn Stalmaster,...

Producers

$8,000,000

Budget

$23671186

Revenue

02-04-1982

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5.6

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97 min

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English

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★ 5.6

$8,000,000

Budget

$23,671,186

Revenue

02-04-1982

Release Date

Country

5.6

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Age Rating

97 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English

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Michael Pressman

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Pressman (born July 1, 1950 in New York City, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television. Some of the films he has directed are The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976), Doctor Detroit (1983), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996). For television, he has directed episodes of Picket Fences, The Practice, The Graudian, Boston Legal, The Closer, Law & Order, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy and other series. He is an alumni of Camp Rising Sun and studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts.

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