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Release Date: 1980

Cast: Barry Corbin, Georg Stanford Brown, Richard Pryor, Miguel Angel Suarez, Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Gene Wilder, JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson

Categories: Movies, Buddy Film, Comedy, Action/Adventure, Prison, Action, Comedy Of Errors, Cult, Prison Film

Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after being framed for a bank robbery; while in prison they befriend other inmates and ultimately escape. In 2000, Total Film magazine voted it the 22nd greatest comedy film of all time. The film ended up grossing $101,300,000, making it the third largest grossing film in 1980, behind The Empire Strikes Back and Nine to Five. Writer Skip Donahue (Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Pryor) are fired from their jobs in New York, and leave for... MORE

Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after being framed for a bank robbery; while in prison they befriend other inmates and ultimately escape. In 2000, Total Film magazine voted it the 22nd greatest comedy film of all time. The film ended up grossing $101,300,000, making it the third largest grossing film in 1980, behind The Empire Strikes Back and Nine to Five. Writer Skip Donahue (Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Pryor) are fired from their jobs in New York, and leave for Hollywood. Along the way, they take odd jobs to make ends meet. In one such job, Skip and Harry dress up as two woodpeckers, performing a song and dance routine as part of a promotion for a bank. Harry and Skip remove their costumes to take a break, and two men who have been watching steal the costumes and perform the routine as though they were Harry and Skip. The men then use the costumes to rob the bank, and in the confusion Harry and Skip are immediately arrested, whisked through a speedy trial and handed 125-year jail sentences. Their court-appointed lawyer, Len Garber (Joel Brooks), advises them LESS