Stir Crazy (1980)

6.6	Listal rating
6.7	IMDB rating

Directed by

Sidney Poitier

Starring (View all)

Skip Donahue

Harry Monroe

Rory Schultebrand

Meredith

Miguel Ángel Suárez

Jesus Ramirez

Craig T. Nelson

Deputy Ward Wilson

Barry Corbin

Warden Walter Beatty

Charles Weldon

Blade

Written by

Bruce Jay Friedman

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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.

Release date : 12 December 1980
UPC: 043396032941

Comedy (9), 1980 (5), 1980s (3), Crime (3), Prison (2), SnP (2), HQ (1), 80's (1), 111 Min (1), Friendship (1), WOL (1), Prison Film (1), Sort (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), 1980's (1)

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"It's strange about "Stir Crazy." We go in with big expectations, and we laugh so much at the beginning that we're ready for the movie to launch itself as a hit. And then it all goes flat and we come out disappointed. - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "

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"Richard Pryor, Stir Crazy This 1980 Sidney Poitier-directed buddy comedy (the second of four collaborations with Gene Wilder) was Richard Pryor’s biggest box-office hit, but the comic sure couldn’t figure out why. He expressed his initial doubts in a notorious, coked-up on-set interview (above), announcing, “What do you wanna know about this movie? IT SUCKS!” A few months later, while the film was in post-production, Pryor nearly killed himself by fire in a notorious incident in his H"