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.
- Director
- Sidney Poitier
- Worldwide
- $101M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
31 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Stir Crazy returned 10.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $10M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $101M
- Release date
- Dec 12, 1980
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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