Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/29/1999
SubTitles: English/Espanol/Por/Chi/Kor/Tha
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
After the excellent audience response to their teaming in
Silver Streak, Gene Wilder and
Richard Pryor reunited for this zany comedy. Wilder and Pryor play a couple of out-of-work numbskulls who take a promotional job that requires them to dress up like gigantic woodpeckers. Unfortunately, a pair of thieves, likewise decked out in woodpecker suits, pull off a bank job not long after Wilder and Pryor make their first public appearance. The boys are arrested and sentenced to 120 years each (at this point, we know we're not dealing with real life). After a concerted (and hilarious) effort to make the best of things "in stir," Wilder and Pryor break out of jail, hoping to track down the genuine thieves. The mess never really works itself out, suggesting that perhaps the stars had a
Stir Crazy II lurking in the recesses of their minds. Written by
Bruce Jay Friedman and directed by
Sidney Poitier, it never did spawn a sequel, though a TV series spin-off, starring
Larry Riley and
Joseph Guzaldo, briefly surfaced in 1986.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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