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Stir Crazy (1980)
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After the excellent audience response to their teaming in Silver Streak,
Gene Wilder
and
Richard Pryor
reunited for this zany comedy. Wilder and Pryor play a couple of out-of-work numbskulls who take a promotional job that requires them to dress up like gigantic woodpeckers. Unfortunately, a pair of thieves, likewise decked out in woodpecker suits, pull off a bank job not long after Wilder and Pryor make their first public appearance. The boys are arrested and sentenced to 120 years each (at this point, we know we're not dealing with real life). After a concerted (and hilarious) effort to make the best of things "in stir," Wilder and Pryor break out of jail, hoping to track down the genuine thieves. The mess never really works itself out, suggesting that perhaps the stars had a Stir Crazy II lurking in the recesses of their minds. Written by Bruce Jay Friedman and directed by
Sidney Poitier
, it never did spawn a sequel, though a TV series spin-off, starring
Larry Riley
and
Joseph Guzaldo
, briefly surfaced in 1986. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Jonathan Banks
Jack Graham
Joel Brooks
Len Garber
Barry Corbin
Warden Walter Beatty
Nicolas Coster
Warden Henry Sampson
Craig T. Nelson
Deputy Ward Wilson
Lee Purcell
Susan
Miguel Angel Suarez
Jesus Ramirez
Lewis van Bergen
Guard
Erland Van Lidth
Grossberger
Charles Weldon
Blade
JoBeth Williams
Meredith
Georg Stanford Brown
Rory Schultebrand
Richard Pryor
Harry Monroe
Gene Wilder
Skip Donahoe
Production Crew
Scott Salmon
Choreography
Fred Schuler
Cinematographer
Michael Masser
Composer (Music Score)
Tom Scott
Composer (Music Score)
Patricia Edwards
Costume Designer
Sidney Poitier
Director
Harry Keller
Editor
Melville Tucker
Executive Producer
Daniel McCauley
First Assistant Director
Hannah Weinstein
Producer
Melville Tucker
Producer
Alfred Sweeney
Production Designer
Douglas Higgins
Production Designer
Mickey McCardle
Production Designer
Bruce Jay Friedman
Screenwriter
Arthur Jeph Parker
Set Designer
Glenn Anderson
Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 1980
Runtime: 111
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature
Genre
Comedy
Color type
Metrocolor
Produced by
Columbia Pictures
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