Stir Crazy

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Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
comedy film
film
basedOn story by Bruce Jay Friedman
characterPortrayedBy Richard Pryor
surface form: Harry Monroe – Richard Pryor

Gene Wilder
surface form: Skip Donahue – Gene Wilder
cinematographyBy Fred Schuler
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Sidney Poitier
distributor Columbia Pictures
editedBy Pembroke J. Herring
genre buddy comedy
comedy
language English
mainCharacter Harry Monroe
Skip Donahue
musicBy Tom Scott
notableFor commercial success in early 1980s American comedy cinema
pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
originalLanguage English
plotSummary Two friends are wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
producer Hannah Weinstein
Melville Tucker
productionCompany Columbia Pictures
releaseDate December 12, 1980
releaseYear 1980
runtimeMinutes 111
screenwriter Bruce Jay Friedman
setting American Southwest prison
starring Barry Corbin
Craig T. Nelson
Gene Wilder
Georg Stanford Brown
JoBeth Williams
Miguel Ángel Suárez
Richard Pryor
title Stir Crazy self-link

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Silver Streak followedBy Stir Crazy
Bruce Jay Friedman notableWork Stir Crazy
Craig T. Nelson notableWork Stir Crazy
Richard Pryor notableWork Stir Crazy
Pryor notableWork Stir Crazy
subject surface form: Richard Pryor
Stir Crazy title Stir Crazy self-link
Bruce Jay Friedman wrote Stir Crazy