Stir Crazy

Manic comedy in which two losers from New York, heading for a better life in California, are wrongly convicted of a bank robbery and are given 120-year jail terms. With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, the despondent duo rack their brains to figure out a foolproof plan. Fortuitously, one of them discovers an unexpected talent as a rodeo rider, and an escape plan begins to take shape at the annual prisoners’ rodeo, Best friends Skip & Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in prison going stir crazy!, Manic comedy in which two losers from New York, heading for a better life in California, are wrongly convicted of a bank robbery and are given 120-year jail terms. With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, the despondent duo rack their brains to figure out a foolproof plan., Manic comedy in which two losers from New York, heading for a better life in California, are wrongly convicted of a bank robbery and given 120-year jail terms. With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, the despondent duo rack their brains to figure out a foolproof plan. Fortuitously, one of them discovers an unsuspected talent as a rodeo rider, and an escape plan begins to take shape at the annual prisoners’ rodeo., Fired from their New York jobs, two pals head to California and, in desperation, take jobs as mascots for a bank. Mistaken for robbers, they’re jailed for 125 years. Prison laughs with a proven comedy pairing., Fired from their New York jobs, two pals head to California and, in desperation, take jobs as mascots for a bank. Mistaken for robbers, they’re jailed for 125 years. Comedy., Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to their new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up., Unemployed goofs are wrongfully jailed for a robbery they did not commit. Unable to sustain being in stir, they break out to find the real thieves., 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., Two men go to jail after being framed for a robbery., Manic comedy in which two losers from New York, heading for a better life in California, are wrongly convicted of a bank robbery and are given 120-year jail terms. With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, the despondent duo rack their brains to figure out a foolproof plan. Fortuitously, one of them discovers an unexpected talent as a rodeo rider, and an escape plan begins to take shape at the annual prisoners’ rodeo.