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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, 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.
- (31K)
- Comedy, Crime
- Sidney Poitier
- 1980-12-12
STIR CRAZY teams two of the most brilliant and zany comic performers today: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have both been fired from their jobs, so they take off...
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.
How they survive prison and pursue their freedom make up the slapstick antics that ripple through “Stir Crazy”, the second of several Pryor and Wilder collaborations. As basic as the plot may...
- 2 min
- 72.4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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 an unexpected talent as a rodeo rider, and...
- (16)
- Comedy
- R
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."
