Directed by:
Sidney PoitierScreenplay:
Charles BlackwellCinematography:
Fred SchulerComposer:
Tom ScottCast:
Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Barry Corbin, Nicolas Coster, Jonathan Banks, Erland van Lidth (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have both been fired from their jobs, so they take off in their van for California to seek fame and fortune, but somewhere along the way the van conks out and they're broke and... well, they have to eat, right? So they land a gig as singing and dancing woodpeckers to promote a bank opening. When two bank robbers steal their costumes and stick up the bank, guess who gets the blame? Skip and Harry are carted off to the state pen for 125 years. They try to keep their sanity and their lives amidst: a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and an inter-prison rodeo - all with great hilarity. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (1)
Gene Wilder has never let me down before, and so even in this overlong comedy, his guileless looks interlaced with bursts of desperation or aggressiveness were the best that it had to offer. With Richard Prior, Wilder's comedy is additionally superbly complemented, and a number of their joint gags were a joy to watch. It’s too bad that the story of Stir Crazy had no point and was almost 100% uninteresting, which in the end was compounded by the boring rodeo.
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