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4.7/10   122 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Sam Bobrick (play)
Ron Clark (play)
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Release Date:
13 May 1977 (Finland) more
Genre:
Tagline:
There's a Sexual Revolution Going On... And All the Leaders Are in My Family!
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Offensive, stagy comedy more (13 total)

Cast

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Redd Foxx ... Ben Chambers
Pearl Bailey ... Beatrice Chambers

Dennis Dugan ... Garson Hobart
Michael Warren ... Norman Chambers
Tamara Dobson ... Audrey
Vernee Watson-Johnson ... Melody
Jayne Meadows ... Adele
Wayland Flowers ... Larry Davenport
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Sergio Aragonés ... Desk Clerk

Allan Drake ... Cab Driver
George Furth ... Bookstore Clerk
Sosimo Hernandez ... Desk Clerk

Michael Masters ... Delivery man

Barbara Sharma ... Bookstore Clerk
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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original Broadway production starred Maureen Stapleton and Lou Jacobi. The play ran for only 12 performances. more
Goofs:
Continuity: During bookstore scene, a counter top display of a book by author/performer Steve Allen (whose wife Jayne Meadows appears in a major supporting role) keeps flip-flopping so cover is always on view, whether it is being shot from point-of-view of a customer or from that of behind counter clerk. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Afro Promo (1997) more

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Offensive, stagy comedy, 5 September 2006
2/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

I have no idea as to which audience director George Schlatter hoped to sell this comedy-of-ills. With Redd Foxx in the central role and enough pimpy outfits and polyester to carpet the entire 1970s, "Norman" plays like a blaxploitation picture combined with any number of silly sitcom episodes involving comic misunderstandings, not to mention an elongated cameo by Waylon Flowers! Based on a play by Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark, this tale of an estranged married couple (Foxx and Pearl Bailey) learning the hard way that their son is secretly gay--and living with a mincing, prancing white homosexual--has enough limp-wristed jokes to shame any early episode of "Three's Company". Bailey keeps her dignity, and Foxx's sheer confusion is good for a couple of chuckles, but the rest of the performers are humiliated. * from ****

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