overviewphotoscast & crewratings & reviewswatch
Stir Crazy Poster
50
metacriticBased on 5 Critics
80
Based on 7 Users

Release Date: 1980

DVD Release Date: June 29th, 1999

R|1 hr 51 min

Plot Summary
With a jailbreak offering them their only way out, a 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.

Cast: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguelangelo Suarez, Craig T. Nelson, Barry Corbin, Erland van Lidth

Director: Sidney Poitier

Genres: Comedy

Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation

More on Wikipedia

Watch Online

Cast & Credits

view all

Ratings & Reviews

view all
  • 50
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

    Just as the promising parody of prison films begins to catch fire, Friedman and Poitier douse it with a bucketful of realism. [13 Dec 1980]

  • 60
    Variety

    Director Sidney Poitier’s chief role seems to be providing enough space for Pryor and Wilder to do their schtick without going too far afield from the scant storyline show more

  • 50
    Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times

    It's strange about Stir Crazy. We go in with big expectations, and we laugh so much at the beginning that we're ready for the movie to launch itself as a hit. And then it all goes flat and we come out disappointed. show more

See all critic reviews on metacritic.com