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Stir Crazy 111 minutes, United States (1980), 15
Average user rating (4.3 / 15 votes)
Stir Crazy

A pleasantly ludicrous prison comedy starring two great comedians, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, at the peak of their powers. Features cinema's funniest ever chicken impression

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Stir Crazy: Hapless buddies Harry (Pryor) and Skip (Wilder) find that putting on a giant woodpecker costume at the wrong moment can get you a 125-year prison sentence with no hope of remission.

Poitier's featureless direction simply allows two things to happen: Pryor rages and spouts and gabbles, Wilder exudes his air of insane calm - the logic of their pairing never seemed more sound...
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