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Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, written by Bruce Jay Friedman, produced by Hannah Weinstein, [2] and starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two unemployed friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after getting framed for a bank robbery. While in prison they befriend other prison inmates.
Mar 15, 2015 · Stir.Crazy.1980 (Classic Comedy Movie) Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up. Director: Sidney Poitier Writer: Bruce Jay ...
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New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I don't know how anyone got through that scene when Richard Pryor says "He want's a light" or when he goes "Oooh shit". What a great comedy team. Both absolute geniuses of the comedy craft. 27M subscribers in the videos community.
Stir Crazy. "Stir Crazy" seems to change its mind, halfway through, about the kind of movie it wants to be. It starts strong: It's a comedy that teams up, once again, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, who were the best things in the big 1977 hit "Silver Streak." It gives them crazy things to do, like working as performing chickens, but it also ...
Stir Crazy (1980) -- (Movie Clip) A Huge Misunderstanding! Jobless and headed to Hollywood, actor Harry (Richard Pryor) and writer Skip (Gene Wilder) are wrongly jailed for bank robbery in a desert town (shot in Tucson), and things go badly as they meet their public defender (Joel Brooks) and the local judge (Thomas Moore), in their hit follow-up to Silver Streak, Stir Crazy 1980.
Synopsis. New 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 ...
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Synopsis. Writer Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) are fired from their jobs in New York, and leave for Hollywood to find a new way to make a living. Along the way, they take odd jobs to make ends meet. In one such job, Skip and Harry dress up as two woodpeckers, performing a song and dance routine as part of a ...
