A critical and box-office failure, it is the fourth and last film in which Pryor and Wilder starred together, beginning with Silver Streak in 1976.

Con man Eddie Dash, required to complete community service for past crimes, reluctantly chooses the easiest assignment: accompanying mental patient and reformed pathological liar George as he adjusts to life outside the sanitarium.

Panicked, George runs outside and knocks over Al Sandro, who mistakes him for millionaire brewery heir Abe Fielding, missing for five months.

Abe's business manager, Rupert Dibbs, appears with cash and a credit card for 'Abe'—which Eddie promptly pockets before leaving.

Meanwhile, it is revealed that Elaine is actually actress Mimi Kravitz, hired by Rupert along with other paid actors to convince George he is Abe.

At Rupert's urging, Eddie and Elaine escort George to doctors and a dentist to create false medical records.

Overhearing a discussion about identifying bodies through dental records, they realize Rupert plans to murder George to claim the brewery.

In response, George confesses his real identity to the crowd, but they dismiss it as a joke, leaving him in control of the brewery with Eddie and Elaine by his side.

[5] Coincidentally, Bogdanovich had also been an early candidate to direct Silver Streak, Wilder and Pryor's first film pairing,[6] but was ousted in favor of Arthur Hiller.

The consensus summarizes: "So stubbornly unfunny that not even a reunited Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder are enough to give it a spark, Another You is worse than none at all.

"[13] Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Producer-writer Ziggy Steinberg's script is like a stone tied around the movie's neck that sinks it, despite all those gaudy, glossy balloons pulling it up.

"[14] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film half of one star out of four, calling it a "completely worthless comedy" with "no laughs".