Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Directed by

Sidney Poitier

Genre

buddy film, blaxploitation film, parody film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends try to track down a stolen wallet that has a winning lottery ticket inside. Their search takes them through a night of misadventures in their neighborhood.

lightheartedcomedicfast-pacedplayfulfunnostalgicloosecaper

What happens

Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American action comedy and crime comedy film, written by Richard Wesley and directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte co-starring. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although Cosby's and Poitier's characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered a trilogy. Uptown Saturday Night premiered on June 15, 1974, at the Criterion Theatre in New York and opened to positive reviews. The plot of the film revolves around efforts to retrieve a stolen wallet, which contains a winning lottery ticket. In 2024, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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