Bustin' Loose (film)
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $31.3 million |
Bustin' Loose is a 1981 comedy–drama film directed by Oz Scott & Michael Schultz (uncredited) and written by Lonne Elder III, Richard Pryor, & Roger L. Simon. The film stars Pryor,Cicely Tyson,Robert Christian, and George Coe.Bustin' Loose was produced by Michael S. Glick and Pryor.
Joe Braxton (Pryor) is a convict who violates his parole after a failed attempt to lift a bunch of televisions from a store in Philadelphia. After a dramatic attempt at reverse psychology with the judge, he is given a second chance at parole, and his parole-officer, Donald (Robert Christian), has him do something for him.
Donald is also involved with school teacher Vivian Perry (Tyson), whose school was just closed down by the city due to budget cuts. While most of the children have been relocated, eight special needs students have yet to be relocated. Vivian decides to take them to her aunt's farm in rural Washington. Donald is very much against it, and at first gets Joe to tell her the old bus she planned on using wouldn't work. However, that blows up in his face, but Donald then decides to have Joe go ahead and drive the bus to Washington.
As Joe, Vivian, and the kids get rolling, we learn a little more about some of the kids:
We also learn that all Joe thinks he's there for is to fix and drive the bus, but he finds out his true knack for helping out the kids, especially shown when he reads Annie the riot act for her hooker-talk, and saves Anthony from setting another person's property on fire, and even takes the kids fishing for the first time.
The most memorable scene in the movie comes when, after fixing the bus in the rain on a dirt road, Joe and Vivian couldn't get it out of the mud. When Joe goes out to get help, he is found walking in lock step with a group of Ku Klux Klansmen, which follow him back to the bus. Joe then manages to talk the head Klansman and the rest into getting the bus out to get the kids (whom he said were ALL blind) to a hospital in Washington. They agree rather sympathetically and push them out of the mud.
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