The Toy is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Richard Pryor as a janitor at a department store owned by a businessman played by Jackie Gleason.

The Toy: Directed by Richard Donner. With Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz. An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.

A billionaire, his spoiled son and a writer hired to become a human toy, learn there are things money can't buy... like love, in this heartwarming comedy.

A spoiled son of a wealthy man begs his father to buy the friendship and constant companionship of a struggling writer, played by Richard Pryor.

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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. On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates …

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For the first time in motion picture history, the outrageous talent of Richard Pryor and the ingenious comedic sense of Jackie Gleason are combined in the same film. Gleason is U.S. Bates, a …