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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital Stereo, Mono Audio, English, Spanish, Korean, Subtitled
One of the looniest pictures to come along in some time! Stir Crazy teams two of the most brilliant and zany comic performers today: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have both been fired from their jobs, so they take off in their van for California to seek fame and fortune. But somewhere along the way the van conks out, and they're broke and... well, they have to eat, right? So they land a gig as singing and dancing woodpeckers to promote a bank opening. When two bank robbers steal their costumes and stick up the bank, guess who gets the blame? Skip and Harry are carted off to the state pen for 125 years. They try to keep their sanity and their lives amidst: a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and an inter-prison rodeo--all with great hilarity.
"Pryor's worth the price..." The Motion Picture Guide
Editor's Note
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers 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! Soon our heroes, imprisoned with a wild assortment of inmates, are trying to make the best of a bad situation. With 120-year sentences, it certainly doesn't look as though they're getting out anytime soon.STIR CRAZY represents some of Poitier's best directorial work, and has become an American classic. His pairing of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor makes for an unforgettable duo whose humor is unrestrained and natural. The use of memorable character names like "Slowpoke" and "Caesar Gironimo" are signature touches of Poitier's.
| Features | Thai Subtitles | | English Mono | | Portuguese Subtitles | | Chinese Subtitles | | Korean Subtitles | | English Language Version | | English Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | Filmographies | | Bonus Trailers of Richard Pryor Live On The Sun | | Widescreen Format |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 9/22/2009 |
| Running Time: 111 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1981 | | Catalog ID: 3294 | | UPC: 00043396032941 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | The Motion Picture Guide 0 of 10
An essentially empty script is made palatable by Pryor's ability to be funnier than his material... Wilder is his usual strident self, yelling at the top of his lungs, popping his eyes like a minor league Marty Feldman and, in general, giving the same performance he usually gives, almost to a T. Poitier's direction gets as much as it can out of the surprisingly witless script (surprising because it was written by one of the country's better humorists). The language is rough and the sight gags are telegraphed, but Pryor is worth the price... In a small role, note Franklin Ajaye, one of the funniest black (or white) comics operating on a nightclub floor.
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