Stir Crazy
“Two jailbirds who just want out of the cage.”
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
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Cast
63 people
Gene Wilder
Skip Donahue
Known for
Young Frankenstein
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Richard Pryor
Harry Monroe
Known for
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Superman III
Georg Stanford Brown
Rory Schultebrand
Known for
North and South
Roots
JoBeth Williams
Meredith
Known for
Poltergeist
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Miguel Ángel Suárez
Jesus Ramirez
Known for
Bananas
Under Suspicion
Craig T. Nelson
Deputy Ward Wilson
Known for
The Incredibles
Young Sheldon
Barry Corbin
Warden Walter Beatty
Known for
No Country for Old Men
One Tree Hill
Charles Weldon
Blade
Also in
The Atlanta Child Murders
A Woman Called Moses
Nicolas Coster
Warden Henry Sampson
Known for
Police Squad!
Lessons in Chemistry
Joel Brooks
Len Garber
Known for
Six Feet Under
Indecent Proposal
Jonathan Banks
Jack Graham
Known for
Breaking Bad
The Commuter
Erland van Lidth
Grossberger
Known for
The Running Man
Alone in the Dark
Sidney Poitier Director · Bruce Jay Friedman Writer Tom Scott Composer
Worldwide gross $101M · Budget $10M · United States release December 12, 1980
Box office
Budget
$10,000,000
Worldwide gross
$101,300,000
Gross vs. budget
10.1×
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Finland · December 12, 1980
TV
United States · December 12, 1980
Theatrical
Germany
September 3, 1981 · Theatrical
Hungary
May 5, 1983 · Theatrical
Ireland
May 8, 1981 · Theatrical
South Korea
January 1, 2018 · Digital · Netflix
Spain
April 17, 1981 · Theatrical
Sweden
December 12, 1980 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
March 26, 1981 · Theatrical
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