Stir Crazy (film)

Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as downontheirluck friends who are given 125year prison sentences after being framed for a bank robbery. While in prison they befriend other inmates and ultimately escape.

Life in a maximumsecurity prison proves difficult for Skip and Harry. After a failed attempt at faking insanity, they make friends with Jesus Ramirez, a bank robber, and Rory Schultebrand, a gay man who killed his stepfather, and meet inmates such as contrabandist Jack Graham, ax murderer Blade and feared mass murderer Grossberger.Strangely, while Harry is understandably afraid of the violence of the guards and inmates, Skip seems to be blind and yet happy about the situation. At one point, the guards put Skip in a small, dark box for a few days of solitary confinement expecting to find him a crazy mess when they bring him out. Instead he asks them for one more day as he was just beginning to get into himself. ........

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