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Stir Crazy

Name: Stir Crazy
Director: Sidney Poitier
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1980-12-12
Cast: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez

ComedyCrime

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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Cast

Gene WilderRichard PryorGeorg Stanford BrownJoBeth WilliamsMiguel Ángel SuárezCraig T. NelsonBarry CorbinCharles WeldonNicolas CosterJoel BrooksJonathan BanksErland van Lidth

Director

Sidney Poitier

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