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Stir Crazy (1980) -- Along the way to California, Pryor and Wilder stop in a small town and take a job requiring them to wear woodpecker costumes. When two crooks don identical outfits and rob the local bank, Pryor and Wilder are arrested for the crime.

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Bruce Jay Friedman (written by)
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Release Date:
12 December 1980 (USA) more
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Only these two pigeons could dress up as woodpeckers... more
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Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are... more | add synopsis
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(6 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Gene Wilder ... Skip Donahue

Richard Pryor ... Harry Monroe
Georg Stanford Brown ... Rory Schultebrand

JoBeth Williams ... Meredith

Miguel Ángel Suárez ... Jesus Ramirez (as Miguelangel Suarez)

Craig T. Nelson ... Deputy Ward Wilson

Barry Corbin ... Warden Walter Beatty
Charles Weldon ... Blade

Nicolas Coster ... Warden Henry Sampson

Joel Brooks ... Len Garber
Jonathan Banks ... Jack Graham
Erland van Lidth ... Grossberger (as Erland Van Lidth De Jeude)
Lewis Van Bergen ... Guard #1
Karmin Murcelo ... Teresa Ramirez
Franklyn Ajaye ... Young Man in Hospital
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108 min
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As an MIT graduate, 'Erland Van Lidth' was apparently allowed to wear the famous "brass rat" graduation ring during filming. You can see it most clearly in his scene in the metal shop when he bends the metal bar. more
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Harry Monroe: [whimpering] Pillow... I want my pillow. more
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short to the point, 27 December 1999
9/10
Author: gaffer-16 from St. Louis Missouri

Simply put, one of the greatest buddy movies of all time. Pryor and Wilder were great together. At least for their first two movies together. Pryor and Wilder are at their funniest as two guys wrongly convicted of a bank robbery.

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