Stir Crazy

Stir Crazy

6.5IMDb Score
Released:1980-12-12
Duration:111 min
Director:Sidney Poitier
Actors:Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez
Production:Columbia Pictures

Overview:

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

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