Stir Crazy (1980)

1980 • 111 minutes

About this movie

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. © 1980 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

One of the finest comedy films ever made and for me never gets old, with two legends who had amazing chemistry and must have had a riot filming together. Both sadly no longer with us, but forever in our hearts and memories giving us wonderful humour and classic comedy for generations to enjoy.

These 2 guyz working together is just pure comedy genius....they rub off each other so well. The film is obviously brilliant writing too but Richard and Gene play the characters so well it's hilarious. Well worth a watch

This is the greatest comedy ever and i never tire of watching it. My stomach aches from the amount of laughter every time i watch it. Ok the last part of the movie when they are at the rodeo isnt as funny but when they are sentenced to the penitentiary is worth watching over and over again.