Stir Crazy (1980)
Director:
Sidney Poitier
Tagline:
« Only these two pigeons could dress up as woodpeckers… »
Actors:
Skip Donahue
Harry Monroe
Rory Schultebrand
Meredith
Jesus Ramirez
Rating:
(32’798 votes)
(32’798 votes)
Quotes:
« Skip Donahue: What are you doing?
»
« Harry Monroe: I'm gettin bad. You better get bad, Jack, 'cause if you ain't bad, you're gonna get fucked.
»
« Big Mean: Short ass son of a bitch, ain't you?
»
« Harry Monroe: [shaking] Oh, I'm a short son of a bitch. My father was a short son of a bitch too. My mother was shorter than him. And my brother was real short and we couldn't even see him. He was a short son of a bitch.
»
« Warden Walter Beatty: You're gonna represent Glenboro prison in the annual Top Hand-competition. Congratulations!
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« Skip Donahue: Oh! Oh, my god! Warden! I can't do that!
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« Warden Walter Beatty: What in the hell are you talking about…?
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« Skip Donahue: Well, I should have told you in your office! My mother was a veterinarian! I can't have anything to do with the exploitation of animals, she'd turn over in her grave!
»
« Warden Walter Beatty: I don't believe you heard me correctly. This is very important to me!
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« Skip Donahue: Important to you? My mother is watching over every step I make! Do you know that my soul is on the line here…? So let's just drop…
»
[looks up]
« Skip Donahue: What? I said no. Whoa, I told him no! Ma, are you crazy, I have witnesses… All right, we'll talk about it in my cell!
»
[looks at the warden]
« Skip Donahue: Uhm… I have to go to the bathroom. Would you excuse me, warden?
»
[looks up at the sky again, and walks off]
Trailer:
Stir Crazy
Runtime:111 minutes
Plots:
Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends are sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit. However, no prison cell can keep them locked in a cage.
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a southwestern prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos, and the inter-prison rodeo is coming up soon.
When Skip and Harry decide that they’ve had enough of New York City, they decide to head to the blue skies and sunshine of California. Taking a job as promoters in a bank, they get falsely accused of bank robbery and are sent to a tough jail where they form unlikely friendships and find themselves in the prison rodeo.

