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Stir Crazy
1980
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment -- they're sent to .. Read more
| Starring | Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Barry Corbin |
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| Director | Sidney Poitier |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Stir Crazy
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment -- they're sent to prison! Soon our heroes, imprisoned with a wild assortment of inmates, are trying to make the best of a bad situation. With 120-year sentences, it certainly doesn't look as though they're getting out anytime soon.
STIR CRAZY represents some of Poitier's best directorial work, and has become an American classic. His pairing of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor makes for an unforgettable duo whose humor is unrestrained and natural. The use of memorable character names like "Slowpoke" and "Caesar Gironimo" are signature touches of Poitier's.
| Starring | Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Barry Corbin, Craig T. Nelson, Lee Purcell, Joel Brooks, Georg Stanford Brown, Nicolas Coster, Miguel A. Suarez, Charles Weldon |
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| Director | Sidney Poitier |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 11 Nov 2002 Production year: 1980 |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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As Sidney Poitier's direction and a firm script all but vanish beneath the clowning, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (again playing the cynic and the innocent) are, according to your taste and viewpoint, either highly creative or contrived, witty or noisy, inspired or tedious. Relying more on mugging than acting (especially in the second half), they play a couple of goons who leave New York for California and are wrongly imprisoned for a bank robbery en route. To give the film its due, prison clichés are cleverly lampooned here with wild invention, and Pryor's chicken scene is one that will last.
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Extended farce giving rather too free rein to its stars' potential for mugging, and polishing up every prison gag in the book.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Fantastic!!!
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor team up again in this comic tale of two guy's wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to jail. I cannot stress how much you ... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Stir Crazy is a great Comedy, the best Film that Richard Pryor and Wilder have done, and thats saying something as Hear No Evil See No Evil was a great ... more
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Stir Crazy
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about ...
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