Stir Crazy (1980)
- Directed by
- Sidney Poitier
- Genre
- buddy film, prison film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 488 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two friends are wrongly convicted of a bank robbery and sent to prison for a long time. They try to adjust to prison life with humor and cleverness.
comediclightheartedsillyoffbeatplayfulfunnycampybouncy
What happens
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American black comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, written by Bruce Jay Friedman, produced by Hannah Weinstein, and starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, two unemployed friends who are given 125-year prison sentences after getting framed for a bank robbery. While in prison they befriend other prison inmates. The film reunited Wilder and Pryor, who had appeared previously in the 1976 comedy thriller film Silver Streak. The film was released in the United States on December 12, 1980, to mixed reviews, and was a major financial success, grossing $101 million against a $10 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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