Stir Crazy
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Film · TMDB
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, Crime
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
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
6.7/10
31,066 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
69%
Metacritic
56/100
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Key dates
- Published
- 3 September 1981
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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
- Composer
- Tom Scott
- Producer
- Hannah Weinstein
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Narrative location
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Categories
1980 American films1980 comedy films1980 English-language films1980 films1980s buddy comedy films1980s crime comedy films1980s prison filmsAfrican-American comedy filmsAmerican buddy comedy filmsAmerican crime comedy filmsAmerican prison comedy filmsColumbia Pictures filmsEnglish-language buddy comedy films