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Stir Crazy
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Stir Crazy is a 1980 comedy directed by Sidney Poitier, re-teaming Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder four years after their hit Silver Streak.Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend, out-of-work actor Harry Monroe (Pryor), decide to drive to sunnier, friendlier Los Angeles. They end up getting framed for a bank robbery in Arizona and are sentenced to state prison for 125 years! While waiting for their appeal, Skip and Harry must get through mean guards, an overly friendly gay convict (Georg Stanford Brown), and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger (Erland Van Lidth). When the corrupt warden Beatty (Barry Corbin) sees that Skip is the only prisoner that can ride his mechanical bull at full power, he tries to force him to participate in the annual rodeo competition. | |
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Great Escape | |
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Great Escape: Skip, Harry and a few fellow inmates plan an escape during the prison rodeo. ironically Skip and Harry learn they've been found innocent once they manage to get away. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Grossberger. He is so feared by the rest of the prison population that no one wants to get in his way. In one scene in the prison cafeteria, as Grossberger wanders around the room looking for some salt, the inmates occupying those tables practically leap out of their seats to get away from him. | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
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Vocal Dissonance: Grossberger is a big mean-looking giant but sings like an angel. | |
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Hello, Attorney! | |
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Hello, Attorney!: Meredith (JoBeth Williams), the surprisingly hot cousin of Skip and Harry's lawyer who's working with him to prove their innocence (she's actually a social worker, not an attorney, but same diff). Skip is immediately attracted to her. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
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Big "WHAT?!": Harry's response to learning the guy next to in the prison hospital had one of his nuts removed by mistake: "SAY WHAT?!!!" | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: Subverted where the guards puts 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 for one more day: "Please, I was just beginning to get into myself!" | |
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Dissonant Serenity | |
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Dissonant Serenity: The young black prisoner in the bed next to Harry in the hospital wing is incredibly nonchalant about having a testicle removed by mistake! (shrugs)"Ain't nothin' I can do about it now." | |
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Marijuana Is LSD | |
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Marijuana Is LSD: In the beginning when Harry is working as a waiter at a fancy dinner party, his stash of grass is mistaken for oregano and put into the food. We next get a scene of rich white people tripping. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Rory (George Sanford Brown), who keeps calling Harry "My dear" and making passes at him. | |
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Brooklyn Rage | |
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Brooklyn Rage: Part of the reason Skip wants to move to LA is that New Yorkers are so unfriendly and hostile to each other. | |
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Prison | |
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Prison: The movie was filmed in a real maximum security penitentiary in Arizona. Richard Pryor talks about it in his concert film Live at the Sunset Strip. | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee | |
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The audience learns very little about the plan to escape from the rodeo until after it happens. We don't even learn the identity of the Latino man who assists them until they've already escaped. Turns out he's Jesus' brother | |
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Obvious Stunt Double | |
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Obvious Stunt Double: During any scene where Skip is shown actively participating in rodeo stunts (but especially during the money-grab contest), he suddenly gains about fifty pounds and grows his hair out by several inches. | |
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Naked in Mink | |
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Naked in Mink: An early scene has Skip, moonlighting as a department store detective, accusing a female customer — who's also an actress he recognizes — of pretending to shoplift a dress, discarding said dress in the trash, and trying to leave the store with nothing on beneath her overcoat. We subsequently learn he was fired from the store without finding out if any of his accusations were true. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Skip and Harry are in a restaurant when a tall man and short taxi driver burst in arguing because the man refuses to pay the driver. Skip decides to be a good Samaritan and walks over to defuse the situation. Just before he gets there, the taxi driver grabs the man 'down there' with a pair pliers and twists, which Skip fails to notice. Of course, the man is now far more co-operative and pays the taxi driver, all while Skip is talking calmly to them both. When the driver releases the pliers and both men leave, Skip walks away thinking it was all his doing. | |
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