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Stir Crazy
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6.5New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes 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.
Released: 1980-12-12111 minDir: Sidney PoitierComedy, CrimeBudget: $10.0MBox office: $101M
Cast
- Gene Wilder as Skip Donahue
- Richard Pryor as Harry Monroe
- Georg Stanford Brown as Rory Schultebrand
- JoBeth Williams as Meredith
- Miguel Ángel Suárez as Jesus Ramirez
- Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson
Themes
- mistaken identity
- prison escape
- fish out of water
- wrongful imprisonment
- buddy
- buddy comedy
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
31,066 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
69%
Metacritic
56/100
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- prison film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Sidney Poitier
- Screenwriter
- Bruce Jay Friedman
- Cast member
- Tony Burton
- Composer
- Tom Scott
- Producer
- Hannah Weinstein
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Narrative location
- California
- Filming location
- Arizona
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 907322
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- publication date
- 1981-09-03
- title
- Stir Crazy
- distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- film editor
- Harry Keller
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
- review score
- 69%
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