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Stir Crazy is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Sidney Poitier released in USA on 12 december 1980 with Gene Wilder

Stir Crazy (1980)

Stir Crazy
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Released in USA 12 december 1980
Length 1h51
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Action
Rating66% 3.348223.348223.348223.348223.34822

Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier and 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.

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Writer Skip Donahue and actor Harry Monroe are fired from their jobs in New York, and leave for Hollywood. Along the way, they take odd jobs to make ends meet. During one such job in Arizona, Skip and Harry perform a song and dance routine dressed as woodpeckers as part of a promotion for a bank. While the duo is taking a break, two men steal the costumes and rob the bank. Harry and Skip are arrested, whisked through a speedy trial and handed 125-year jail sentences. Their court-appointed lawyer, Len Garber, advises them to wait until he can appeal their case.

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