History: Film / StirCrazy

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[[caption-width-right:350:"That's right! That's right! We bad! Uh huh!"]]

->'''Skip:''' What are you doing?
->'''Harry:''' I'm gettin' ''bad''. You better get ''bad'' Jack, cuz you ain't ''bad'', you gonna get fucked!

''Stir Crazy'' is a 1980 comedy directed by SidneyPoitier re-teaming RichardPryor and GeneWilder four years after their hit ''SilverStreak''.

Fed up with living in New York City, struggling playwright Skip Donahue (Wilder) and his best friend Harry Monroe(Pryor) an out of work actor, 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, and a scary, bald behemoth named Grossberger. When the corrupt warden 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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!!Tropes include:
* BigWhat: Harry's response to learning the guy next to in the prison hospital had one of his nuts removed by mistake: "SAY WHAT?!!!"
* BlackBestFriend: Harry is this to Skip.
* BrooklynRage: Part of the reason Skip wants to move to LA is that New Yorkers are so unfriendly and hostile to each other.
* CampGay: Rory(George Sanford Brown) who keeps calling Harry "My dear" and making passes at him.
* CorruptHick: The warden and the head guard.
* DissonantSerenity: 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."
* GentleGiant: Grossberger becomes this after making friends with Skip and Harry. 
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: 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!"
* GreatEscape: Skip, Harry and a few fellow inmates plan an escape during the prison rodeo.
* HelloAttorney: Meredith(JoBeth Williams), the surprisingly hot cousin of Skip and Harry's lawyer who's working with him to prove their innocence. Skip is immediately attracted to her.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: 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 it into the food. We next get a scene of rich white people tripping.
* {{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".
* SaltAndPepper: Skip and Harry. 
* ScaryBlackMan: The prisoner wearing a cowboy hat who asks Skip and Harry for a light when they're first incarcerated.
* ThoseTwoGuys: This is the second of four films Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor made together.
* WorkingOnTheChainGang
* VocalDissonance: Grossberger is a big mean looking giant but sings like an angel.
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