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Stir Crazy
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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, CrimeBudget: $10.0MBox office: $101M
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
Themes
- mistaken identity
- prison escape
- fish out of water
- wrongful imprisonment
- buddy
- buddy comedy
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
31,066 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
69%
Metacritic
56/100
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 907322
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- publication date
- 1981-09-03
- title
- Stir Crazy
- review score
- 69%
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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 filmsEnglish-language crime comedy filmsFilms about miscarriage of justiceFilms about prison escapesFilms adapted into television showsFilms directed by Sidney PoitierFilms scored by Tom Scott (saxophonist)Films set in ArizonaFilms set in CaliforniaFilms set in ManhattanFilms set in New York CityFilms shot in Arizona