Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor as two men framed for a bank robbery and each ending up with a 125 year prison sentence, alongside a real bank robber (played by Miguel Angel Suarez) and a man who killed his stepfather (played by Georg Stanford Brown). In 2000, Total Film magazine voted it the 22nd greatest comedy film of all time. It was the third largest grossing film in 1980, behind The Empire Stri...
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Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor as two men framed for a bank robbery and each ending up with a 125 year prison sentence, alongside a real bank robber (played by Miguel Angel Suarez) and a man who killed his stepfather (played by Georg Stanford Brown). In 2000, Total Film magazine voted it the 22nd greatest comedy film of all time. It was the third largest grossing film in 1980, behind The Empire Strikes Back and Nine to Five. Georg Stanford Brown's performance in the film was panned by critics, where he earned a Razzie Award nomination as Worst Supporting Actress, where his character dressed up in drag in some scenes.
The 1985 CBS sitcom of the same title was loosely based on the film but did not have any of the film's stars involved with it.
Writer Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) are two down-on-their-luck men trying to break into show business. After they both get fired from their jobs (Skip for...
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