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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1977 DVD Release: 01/13/2004 Format: DVD - Soft-Matted WSE for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Crime Comedy

Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier, co-stars of the comic capers Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again, team up again for this socially conscious comedy-adventure. This time out, Poitier and Cosby play Manny Durrell and Dave Anderson, Windy City con artists with a long history of cheating crooks who rip off the poor. They are blackmailed by retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) into "giving back to the community." Manny and Dave soon find themselves posing as career counselors for a group of surly inner-city youths at a local community center. Despite the efforts of such unruly kids as class clown Gerald (Eric Laneuville) and bitter Barbara (Sheryl Lee Ralph), Manny actually begins to take pride in the help he's giving to his students. Soon, though, he's forced to deal with two additional obstacles: the arrival of his girlfriend's obnoxious parents (Gammy Burdett and Wonderful Smith) and the attentions of a local mobster (Titos Vandis) upset that he's been had. As with his previous Cosby collaborations, Poitier directed A Piece of the Action, whose cast also includes Denise Nicholas as a community center leader, Tracy Reed as Manny's girlfriend, Nikki, and Ja'net DuBois as Nikki's tipsy aunt, Nellie. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Hope Clarke - Sarah Thomas
Bill Cosby - Dave Anderson
Ja'net DuBois - Nellie Bond
Jason Evers - Ty Shorter
Frances Foster - Bea Quitman

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team again for the comedy A Piece of the Action. The film debuts on DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English, Spanish, and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a retrospective documentary featuring interviews with a large number of people involved in the film's production. Trailers for this film as well as for Let's Do It Again and Uptown Saturday Night round out this fine disc from Warner Bros. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide