<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $28 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $47,118,057 (USA) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Toy is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason, with Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, and Virginia Capers in supporting roles . It is an adaptation of the 1976 French film Le Jouet . </P> <P> Jack Brown is a married, unemployed man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in danger of having his house repossessed . After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taking a job as a janitor for the wealthy and ruthless businessman U.S. Bates, who owns the paper, a department store and many other businesses . Brown is humiliated as he clumsily attempts to serve food at a luncheon . He is fired from that gig by Bates, but "Master" Eric Bates, the spoiled son of the boss, sees Jack while looking through Bates' department store . Amused at seeing Jack goof around in the store's toy section, Eric informs his father's long - suffering right - hand man, Sydney Morehouse, that what he wants is Jack himself . </P>

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