Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7223 in VHS
• Released on: 2001-05-15
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

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Sold as a comedy, this film was really a biopic about Wendell Scott, the first African American to break through on the auto-racing circuit. Richard Pryor (working from a script cowritten by Melvin Van Peebles) conveys the determination and long-suffering humor of a man who battles racial prejudice to pursue the sport he loves. But the material is plodding and Pryor can't elevate it. Nor can director Michael Schultz turn all of those behind-the-wheels scenes into actual cinematic excitement. Still, in rare moments, Pryor (working opposite Pam Grier) manages to sneak out some of the subversive wit that made him a star. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

FINALLY
Bout time this movie hittin DVD. Richard Pryor hilarious in this "Moving" movie, I loved this movie growin up.

So long in coming, I thought I'd never see it...
Considering how many times Moving played on pay cable networks, and then on basic cable channels, back when it was 'new', I have to ask the same question that those ahead of me were asking: WHAT TOOK SO LONG?

I guess the studios didn't feel there was much of a market for Moving, but oh how wrong they are. It is a favorite of my wife and I and just the thought of the movie cracks me up (I could digress into a line or two from the Dudley Moore film Arthur, but I won't bother with that here and now...)

Dana Carvey, near the height of his own Saturday Night Live fame, makes an hilarious appearance here and a one word utterance by him is one that brings perhaps the biggest smile to my face, or to my wife's face. Carvey's character was hired by Richard Pryor's character to drive Pryor's precious car across country, unfortunately what Pryor's character never realized is that Carvey is just plain crazy and not the prim and proper individual that he was presented with.

Pryor's role for Moving was one of a company employee forced to pick up his family and move to the middle of no where (from Pryor's perspective, and from his family's perspective). Pryor does his best, or at least thinks he has done his best, to find a nice home to buy, but even that doesn't quite work out as well as he hoped.

Basically just about anything that could go wrong does and hilariously so.


Ironically, having waited so long to get a DVD release of Moving, the studios have bundled that film with another film that seems to be under appreciated, Greased Lightning. Greased Lightning is a biopic about a real life NASCAR driver, Wendell Scott. Scott took up NASCAR when faced with a choice of racing or going to jail. Along the way he relies upon determination to prove to himself and others that anything is possible, including winning a race in a sport dominated by white drivers. Scott was the first, and so far (at the time this review was written) the only, Black driver to have accomplished that task.

Greased Lightning isn't a bad film, but it isn't the best of Pryor's work either. He's not bad in the role and does the best he can with the story and direction he's given, but the film itself has a questionable history when it comes to who really did the directing, the director or the writer.


Purchasers get a fair bargain here, two films on a single disc at a fairly low price. Moving is easily worth the purchase price, and getting Greased Lightning as a bonus makes for a nice deal.

1 OF THE BEST COMEDIES EVER........................................
Moving is (in my honest opinion) Richard Pryor's best and funniest movie ever! If you haven't seen this movie than I suggest you do immediately. This movie is on my list of DVD's I must have in my collection be4 I die and it's finally here. (Now if they would put out Stone Cold (Brian Bosworth) than it would be close to complete).

This movie will have you laughing from start to finish. My VHS copy is worthless now because of frequent viewings over the years. This is a sleeper hit that got overlooked and now I hope newbies will see it if they missed it 1st time around. Dana Carvey and his multiple personality character can't be missed. And my main man Randy "choke my chicken" Quaid is the best ever in this flick. His performance is right up there with his "Cousin Eddie" character. HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!! I guarantee you will love this movie because everyone I know that has seen it rate as one of there all time favorite comedies.

I saw Greased Lightning when I was about 7 or 8 and I don't remember it too much, but it is about racing and I love that. It's a bonus movie for buying Moving to me! I do remember liking it though.

MOVING = MUST BUY DVD