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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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Roll, Freddy, Roll! (1974)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.