Stir Crazy

"Two jailbirds who just want out of the cage."

Dec 12 1980 R 1h 51m
Comedy, Crime

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 to prison.

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Plot

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.

Written by

Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Blackwell

Directed by

Sidney Poitier

Cast

Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

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Scores
# of Votes
31,394
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
56
Popularity
NA