Comedy-Moving

Beta tape Moving Comedy..11789..Color..89 min..Warner Home Video…Starring Richard Pryor, Beverly Todd, Dave Thomas, Dana Carvey, & Randy Quaid Don t you just hate to move? Doesn t it seem as if getting the dog, the goldfish, the VCR and all your other worldly possessions from Point A to Point B means something goes wrong? Not if you re with Arlo Pear. The everything goes wrong. Ace funnyman Richard Pryor and director Alan Metter keep the laughs Moving right alone in this tale about Arlo (Pryor), a lawn-watering suburbanite, family man and career transit engineer who s an expert on getting people and things from one place to another. At least he used to be an expert — until a job change forces him to move from Point A in Summit, New Jersey, To Point B: Bosie, Idaho. It s relocation that s no small potatoes to his mutinous family. So beleaguered Arlo must somehow keep peace with his household. ANd keep pace with crackpots who thwart his every move: a looney neighbor Randy Quaid, who undoubtedly found his brain at Lobotomies-R-Us, bully movers, (including wrestler King Kong Bundy), and a cross-country auto driver (Saturday Night Live s Dana Carvey, A.K.A. The Church Lady) who has more wacko personalities than Arlo s beloved Saab has gears. Toss in an encounter with a bet-the-house banker (a surprise star cameo) and Arlo is just one nicked table leg away from his inevitable, hilarious breaking point. Throughout these mountainous misadventures, Pryor and company pack, the New York Post says,"a houseful of laughs." So, for comedy that s going places, pack up your troubles and get Moving.