Uptown Saturday Night

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Uptown Saturday Night

PG

1974

1h 44m

Comedy

Action

Crime

Drama

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Blue-collar buddies (Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

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Penelope Gilliatt

The New Yorker

03/06/2024

Black is beautiful. Yes, but Uptown Saturday Night, directed by Sidney Poitier, demonstrates something more revolutionary: Black is fun.

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Donald Bogle

Freedomways

09/23/2020

We should continue to demand, expect, and fight for much more from our movies. But we should never let ourselves be content with yesterday's warmed up left-overs. And, unfortunately, that's just what Uptown Saturday Night is.

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Dick Lochte

Los Angeles Free Press

12/12/2019

I have nothing but good feelings about the movie.

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

08/01/2005

3/5

Very dated humor with youngish Cosby and Poitier...who directs OK.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

06/28/2005

2/5

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

01/07/2004

5/10

...harmless enough, flimsy and almost forgettable entertainment but easy going down.

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Bick B

@Burke_Schoenfeldt76 Jan 19

All star actors but the humor is very dated. It wasn't bad, but it just didn't really make me laugh or hook me in, and seemed overly silly at times. I think the high reviews are by people who think they should like it.

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SA G

@RT67239741 May 3

Some of the greatest black actors of our time; Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Richard Pryor, Flip Wilson, Paula Kelly, Rosaland Cash, Harold Nicholas, Calvin Lockhart. Old school comedy at its best!

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CodyZamboni Z

@CodyZamboni 06/17/2024

Amusing, slapstick buddy comedy. Two guys try to con the Chicago underworld to get back a winning lottery ticket, Works on the charisma of two stars, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. There's a wacky supporting cast featuring cameos by Richard Pryor, Flip Wilson, Jim Brown, And there's an unrecognizable Harry Belafonte. parodying Brando's Godfather.

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Steve D

@RT35616104 08/08/2023

With recent events it would be hard to watch even if it was a whole lot funnier.

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ashley h

@ashleyhobgood87 11/03/2022

Uptown Saturday Night is an okay film. It is about two friends who search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby give decent performances. The script is a little slow in places. Sidney Poitier did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the action and humor.

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07/19/2020

One of my favorite movies of all time, wildly entertaining raised the bar for black cinema above typical blaxploitation

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Synopsis

Blue-collar buddies (Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby) search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

Director: Sidney Poitier
Producer: Melville Tucker
Screenwriter: Richard Wesley
Production Co: First Artists, Verdon Productions Limited
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 16, 1974, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 15, 2012
Runtime: 1h 44m

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