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1980

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Starring	Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Barry Corbin
Director	Sidney Poitier
Genres	Comedy

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
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	Production year: 1980 To Rent: DVD: 11 Nov 2002

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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.
- 32011
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  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 ... read more »
  
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  - Sheffield, England
  - 28 Jul 2004 at 01:06
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  amazing film
  
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  This is ust a classic..I remember having this on VHS when I was growing up and thought it was so funny....I saw it on here and had to get it, it was still one ... read more »
  
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  Legendary Film?
  
  this film was recommended to me by a friend so i thought i would give it a shot. I watched it wit full hope of being a hit and funny start to finish but i found... read more »
  
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  Funny
  
  This is another one of my favourite films a classic which I will probably rent out again in the near future if there is nothing on the TV
  
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  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 ...