Stir Crazy

Stir Crazy (1980)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (19,531 ratings)

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… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Bruce Jay Friedman
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 12, 1980 Wide
On DVD
Aug 28, 2001
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Unfunny script.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...one can't help but wish that director Sidney Poitier had just let Wilder and Pryor do their thing.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Stir Crazy is a funny comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

  • Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

    22 years later, and I'm still not laughing.

  • Luke Y. Thompson, New Times

    A comedy classic -- see for yourself.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Phil H


    This has to be the best Wilder and Pryor combo by far, the sequences set at the beginning of their jail time is pure gold, it loses it at the end as the film progresses towards the surprisingly dull escape part of the plot but rest assured the rest of the film is hilarious. Wilder… More

  • AJ V


    Hilarious movie, a classic starring comedy duo Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. I love it, and I highly recommend it.

  • Spencer S


    Pryor and Wilder, the perfect comedy duo, are funny as ever, mixing Wilder's zany antics, with Pryor's no nonsense form of social awareness. One of their best.

  • Anthony L


    One of the funniest, definitely the unlikeliest and certainly one of my favourite comedy pairings ever. This is Wilder and Pryor's best film together that has me in tears every time I watch it. The scene where they first enter prison is comedy perfection! Brilliant!

  • xGary X


    Two bumbling suburbanites are framed for bank robbery and sentenced to 125 years in a tough western penitentiary. This mildly amusing prison comedy certainly has some funny moments, especially during their initial incarceration and when the wardens turn the screws to bend them to the… More

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