"Richard Pryor is in a new kind of comedy... about some kind of hero... in some kind of mess." 02 April 1982 Drama, Comedy 97 mins
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.
Watch the official Some Kind of Hero 1982 trailer in HD below or find more Some Kind of Hero videos on Vidimovie.
Richard Pryor as Cpl. Eddie Keller / Ted Segal
Margot Kidder as Toni Donovan
Ray Sharkey as Sgt. Vinnie DiAngelo
Ronny Cox as Col. Powers
Lynne Moody as Lisa
Olivia Cole as Jesse
Paul Benjamin as Leon
David Adams as The Kid
Martin Azarow as Tank
Shelly Batt as Olivia
Susan Berlin as Jeanette
Mary Betten as Lady Teller
Herbie Braha as Honcho #2
Anthony Charnota as Base Commander
Matt Clark as Mickey
Jude Farese as Bandit #1
James Kirkwood Jr. Screenplay
Robert Boris Writer
Michael Pressman Director
James Kirkwood Jr. Novel
Robert Boris Associate Producer
Howard W. Koch Producer
James Kirkwood Jr. Co-Producer
Samuel Vance Associate Producer
Patrick Williams Original Music Composer
James L. Schoppe Art Direction
Christopher Greenbury Editor
Lynn Stalmaster Casting
Robert L. Stevenson Hair Department Head
King Baggot Director of Photography
Mel Dellar Unit Production Manager
Monty Westmore Makeup Artist
Apuros e Trapalhadas de um Herói Trailer
Ein besonderer Held Trailer
Ну и герой Trailer
Germany 01 June 1986
Ireland 22 August 1982
United States 02 April 1982
If you liked the Some Kind of Hero trailer, you may like these ones:
17 September 2002
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
09 September 1970
Eli is an Israeli soldier who manages to escape from a notorious Arab prison. He makes it back to Israel, where he finds Beno, another soldier who had spent 2 years of horror in the same prison.
12 September 1997
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939.
14 November 1996
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers.
09 December 1987
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps.
04 March 2008
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards.
11 October 1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors.
01 October 1975
Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.
12 March 2015
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war.
15 February 2002
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines.
15 March 1972
Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
04 June 1937
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Some Kind of Hero:
Some Kind of Hero full hd movie trailer.
Eddie Keller a Viet Nam returns home to a world he no longer recognizes. His wife has ...
This fast moving comedy is laced with poignancy and drama as Pryor assays one of the finest roles of his career as Eddie Keller a man who returns home after ...
Eddie Keller a Viet Nam returns home to a world he no longer recognizes. His wife has ...
Some Kind of Hero.
This fast moving comedy is laced with poignancy and drama as Pryor assays one of the finest roles of his career as Eddie Keller a man who returns home after ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1982:
29 September 1982
A dramatization of the life of the founder of Los Angeles's first alcoholic recovery center for women, Beatrice O'Reilly.
25 June 1982
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
01 January 1982
The Bed opens with Jamie, a young man, looking round an old, deserted country house. Through flashback we see Jamie as a boy, scared out of his wits when his older sister and her boyfriend, left alone in the house to babysit Jamie for the evening, play cruel tricks on him.
01 January 1982
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail.
01 January 1982
Joan Mulligan is waiting in vain for her husband, Arthur Blanc, an Etruscologist who has traveled to Tuscany in search of materials for an exhibition.
01 January 1982
Honest mint employee, Ghanshyam (Shreeram Lagoo) gets framed for murder by Joseph D'Souza (Amjad Khan), and has to flee from the police.
01 January 1982
Two dorky Nevada worm wranglers are kidnapped by a gang of beautiful women as part of a plot to steal platinum from the Mafia.
11 January 1982
Experimental artistic film which uses the milieu of experimental art with a background of various kinds of sounds and music.
Have you watched Some Kind of Hero yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1982 Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions.