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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 gives them interesting characters.
Two guys doing a bank promotion dressed as Big Bird are mistaken for the bank robbers who stole their costumes in "Stir Crazy," a 1980 film starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, who worked so well together in several films.
List. 69% Tomatometer 16 Reviews. 75% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings. With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, a despondent duo rack their brains to figure out a foolproof plan.
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- Sidney Poitier
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- Gene Wilder
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.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Sidney Poitier
- 1980-12-12
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. While in prison they befriend other prison inmates.
Skip and Harry are mistakenly convicted of bank robbery and end up in prison. They have difficulty adjusting to prison life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos as the inter-prison rodeo approaches.
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1980 In Review - December. Richard Pryor (Harry) and Gene Wilder (Skip) have both been fired from their jobs, so they take off in their vans for California to seek fame and fortune, but somewhere along the way the van conks out and they’re broke, so they end up landing a gig as singing dancing woodpeckers to promote a bank.
