Stir Crazy (DVD)

For a bit of light relief from all the drivel on the television I chose this film to watch as I needed something funny and entertaining to watch. Richard Pryor plays the role of Harry and Gene Wilder plays the role of Skip, both of the New are working in new York and dreaming of a better life. As both of them get sacked at the same time they decide that they will leave the Big Smoke and head for California to make a better life for themselves, Harry ...
...The pair end up stopping in a small town where Skip manages to get them an interview with the bank which results in them getting a job. The only problem is they are dressed as giant woodpeckers doing a song and dance in the bank for the customers. Things go wrong for the men when they are out to lunch and their costumes are stolen by two men who rob the bank. The result of the robbery sees Harry and Skip being arrested and sentenced to 125 years ...

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Review of Stir Crazy (DVD)

Gene Wilder and Richard Prior star in this superb comedy directed by George Roy Hill. Wilder and Prior are two small town losers who decide to travel to the big city to make something of themselves. Well, they certainly do that, landing a job which requires them to wear woodpecker costumes...well its a start I suppose. Unfortunately for them, they choose the day that a pair of bank robber decide to use the same disguise to rob the city bank and naturally ...
...being sentenced to 120 years in prison for the crime. Things look pretty grim as they find themselves sharing a cell with the most enormous inmate who completely fills the cell, squashing them againt the bars by his sheer girth. The prison warder has it in for them, the place is full of nuts and a couple of wise asses like these two can only go one way...However, salvation seems at hand when Wilder shows superb rodeo skills, which is just what the ...

wampyrii 07.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Stir Crazy (DVD)

Director Sidney Poitier Producer: Hannah Weinstein Writer: Bruce Jay Friedman Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Erland Van Lidth and Miguel Angel Suarez. Released in late 1980 this comedy involved two men who, through the quirk of fate, end up behind bars. **BRIEF PLOT** When Skip Donahue, (played by Gene Wilder) and Harry Monroe, (played by Richard Pryor) suddenly find themselves out of work they struggle to pay their bill. When they are ...
...bank, basically dressing up as woodpeckers and dancing outside the bank. Unfortunately, the two men don't realise that they are being watched by people who are planning to use their costumes for ulterior motives leaving them in the frame. Then Skip and Harry are wrongly arrested and imprisoned for a long time they end up in a prison where the governor is a little dodgy, and has taken a dislike to them for refusing to obey certain orders involving ...

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...is still a great film. Stir Crazy sees the two comic genius' Richard Prior and Gene Wilder teamed up again in a very funny film. It is a film I watch over and over again. Follow the escapades of this comic duo as they get arrested and wrongly convicted for a bank robbery with a difference. Feel for them as they try to prove their innocence in an hillarious movie which should adorn anyones video shelf. A belly full of laughs throughout and some ...

jonwhite 06.10.2000 · Read full review
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This movie is one of the better comedies I have seen over the last few years. The comedy duo of Wilder and Pryor are one of the best we have seen in movies. They have such great comic chemistry. This is the best prison comedy ever in my opinion if that is saying much. I highly recommend renting this movie or at least catching it on the tube. My sister says: Simply put, one of the greatest buddy movies of all time. Pryor and Wilder were great together. ...

peter_chrichard 15.08.2000 · Read full review
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A great comical film with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Since as I can remember, when this was on the TV, I loved it and watched it all the way through, it made laugh at the most silly things. Cast - Gene Wilder Richard Pryor JoBeth Williams Craig T. Nelson Barry Corbin Charles Weldon Miguel Angel Suarez Nicolas Coster These two make a great pair and even though its an old’ish film, I would still keep it on my shelf. We start in New York ...
...where the diners seem to be a little too happy. Seconds later, we find that the cook has been very liberal with the oregano her helper took from the cook's bag, only then to find out it was Harry's bag, and it sure wasn't oregano! Skip is the goofiest store detective you'll ever meet, who meets a famous actress and accuses her of shoplifting, which she denies. They are commiserating in a local bar, as they have both been fired! They decide to shake ...

avensis004 13.08.2004 (09.09.2004) · Read full review
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