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Box office. $101 million (USA) 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.
Dec 12, 1980 · Stir Crazy: Directed by Sidney Poitier. With Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams. Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends are sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. However, no prison cell can keep them locked in a cage.
Stir is a 19th-century slang word for "prison" that some word historians have suspected to be from Romani stariben, of the same meaning. But a convincing argument of that origin has yet been made. Today, stir-crazy describes any person who has become restless, agitated, or anxious from being or feeling entrapped in some place.
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Life in a maximum-security prison proves difficult for both Skip and Harry. After a failed attempt at faking insanity, they make friends with Jesus Ramirez (Miguel Ángel Suárez), a real bank robber, and Rory Schultebrand (Georg Stanford Brown), a gay man who killed his stepfather.
Aug 28, 2021 · Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, written by Bruce Jay Friedman, produced by Hannah Weinstein, 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.
Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, a despondent duo rack their brains to figure out a foolproof plan. Fortuitously, one of them discovers ...
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Stir Crazy. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor star in this buddy comedy about pals sentenced to jail who find a possible escape through prison rodeo. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Powered by JustWatch. "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 ...
upset or angry because you have been prevented from going somewhere or doing something for a long time: I've been laid up for two weeks with this broken leg and I'm beginning to go stir-crazy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Angry and displeased. acridly.
