- HD 1080
- Runtime: 97m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Michael Pressman
- Stars: Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Ronny Cox, Lynne Moody
- keywords: prisoner of war
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions
- Slogan: Richard Pryor is in a new kind of comedy... about some kind of hero... in some kind of mess.
- The Some Kind of Hero is featured in the top rankings of 1982
- #79 in Top Comedy Movies of 1982
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
