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	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Stir Crazy (1980)
		One of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor's funniest comedies, this prison film, directed by Sidney Poitier, is often riotous, yet still manages to build to an intriguing and suspenseful finale.
		At times, one can't help feeling the story is a set-up for Wilder and Pryor to ham it up, but that's part of the fun.
		Many of the scenes were improvised as they were being filmed -- the infamous "we're bad" scene is one.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/stir.crazy.1980.shtml (82 words)

	Stir Crazy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stir Crazy is a 1980 comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier.
		It stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two men framed for a bank robbery and each ending up with a 125 year prison sentence.
		In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the 22nd greatest comedy film of all time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stir_Crazy_(movie) (93 words)

	Suburb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The suburb of Mount Prospect, IL was featured in the The Blues Brothers film: Elwood bought his car from the Mount Prospect Police Auction.
		The term suburbia is frequently used to encapsulate the concept of suburbs as oddly picturesque slices of tract-home nuclear family.
		The play was made into a low-budget, independent film in 1997, with Richard Linklater at the directorial helm and featured up-and-coming actors Steve Zahn, Parker Posey, Ajay Naidu, and Giovanni Ribisi in lead roles.
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		Everyone thinks he is going crazy except for his son who tells him not to be afraid.
		Once the film examines the mystery of this girl, "Stir of Echoes" never truly builds on the psychological layers of Tom's character to see how this might affect him.
		There is still a lot to savor in "Stir of Echoes." Kevin Bacon projects anxiety and fear in a nicely balanced performance - his cocky, tense behavior is well-modulated but he could have done so much more with an in-depth script.
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	NathanM » 2005
		During Sidney’s years in the film industry, fls gained more social acceptance and part of it is due to the types of films that Sidney himself starred in and directed.
		Films such as A Piece of the Action are the types of films that have helped fls become more socially accepted among a white society and audience due to their humor and emotional characters.
		This film does not bring up very many ethical or social issues but is instead saturated with humor and is why it is, “the kind of comedy that studios wanted to market”.
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	STIR OF ECHOES
		We are taken deeper into the darkness, and the craziness, and the fear, and then, we are brought out again with a realization that what we normally fear because it is unexplainable and uncontrollable, we really have no reason to fear.
		Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes, the two far more powerful movies, portray men being given the challenge of dealing with and comprehending the paranormal while the women are either skeptics or obstacles in their quest.
		In addition, in Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes, not only are the men the ones with the quest of deciphering the unexplained, but they do so with the exclusion of the regular channels of authority like the police or the medical establishment, and without the help of any spiritual authority.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/stir_of_echoes.htm (1204 words)

	West Bend Stir Crazy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stir frying 1: '''Stir frying''' is a common Chinese cuisineChinese c 5: The food is stir red and tossed very quickly using a big metal spat 9: cooked by adding a few dashes of water after the stir ring.
		Crazy is a general term used to describe people with a mentalillness.
		Crazy is a magazine, an imitator of MAD Magazine published in the 1970s and 1980s by Marvel Comics.
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	DVDFILE.COM: Stir Crazy review
		Think about a prison film that is the opposite of The Shawshank Redemption, and you might think of Stir Crazy.
		Columbia obviously takes great pride in its films, and this is reflected in their excellent presentations.
		Colors might be a bit faded for this nearly two decades old film, and occasionally very minute specs and scars from the original film element appear, but these are barely noticeable.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/stircrazy.htm (943 words)

	Stir Crazy
		In STIR CRAZY, their best film in my opinion, the two play an actor and a playwright from New York who decide to head out west to look for work.
		The plot of "Stir Crazy", though, where Wilder and Pryor are framed for armed robbery and sent to prison, is quite amusing and hilarious, with the right amount of flavor and texture to grab my attention!
		STIR CRAZY would not be the last nail in Gene Wilder's film career hammered by Sidney Poitier.
	blog.markwshead.com /info2/Stir-Crazy.html (1129 words)

	Cinefantastique Lost Highway Article
		Film noir, German Expressionism, and French New Wave meld to create a story that may never have happened, could be a dream, or a representation of madness.
		Conventional films can be restrictive in their linear narratives, but those restrictions provide guidelines for the filmmakers to follow: the leading man wouldn't disappear in the middle of the picture, and the film wouldn't end in the middle of a car chase.
		Lynch knew the film was too long, and realized what had to be cut, and the comments of the 50 solidified for him what had to go, even though some of the decisions were difficult to make.
	www.lynchnet.com /lh/cinelh.html (3976 words)

	Stir Crazy Movie DVD Film Stir Crazy 80's Movies Download Review Stir Crazy Cast Trivia
		Skip and Harry, the main characters of Stir Crazy, are framed as guilty for robbing a bank.
		The protagonists of Stir Crazy aren’t able to adjust to their new life at prison.
		The Movie Stir Crazy was released to theatres on 12/12/1980 by Columbia, and grossed $101,300,000 at the box office in the US.
	www.project80s.com /movies/movies-80s.php?movie=Stir-Crazy (187 words)

	DVD.net : Stir Crazy - DVD Review
		In making this prison film, Poitier has utilised the talents of his cast to portray a slice of life behind bars that, while mostly funny, also has the running undercurrent of sinister intent we have come to associate with this type of vehicle.
		While having some strands of political incorrectness by today’s more liberal standard, the film is still one that makes its point of gentle resistance against corrupt authorities rather than violence; one of beauty among the rough diamonds of society and even the simple appreciation of being free in the world.
		Stir Crazy tells the story of two penniless guys struggling in New York to make their big break.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3195 (855 words)

	Stir Crazy (1980)
		Stir Crazy has a few memorable moments, but on the whole it just drags.
		Stir Crazy, by contrast, tries to make us actually care about the characters and care about how the plot resolves itself.
		Neither director Poitier nor film editor Harry Keller (67 at the time and editing his first theatrical release since the 1950s) were able to use Wilder and Pryor effectively.
	www.prisonflicks.com /reviews.php?filmID=35 (2253 words)

	DOG DAY AFTERNOON
		Sonny is crazy and nothing he's going to say will change the situation.
		Since the entire film takes place in the bank, you'd think it would get boring, but Lumet and the editors do a first rate job, keeping the story moving and the audience interested.
		The emotional core of the film has already shifted to Sonny's survival, so his sexual preference is not really a point of contention anymore.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsD/f_dog_day.html (1207 words)

	The Rev. Chuck Currie: Film
		Filmed mainly in the fl townships of Cape Town, "Son of Man" places the story of Jesus in a shantytown and brings a political flavor in depicting the Gospel narratives.
		MoveOn.org is asking people to pledge to see the film on the opening weekend so that those on the right trying to shut it down don't win their fight (thanks to Heather Hyland for pointing out the MoveOn.org link).
		At the event, she says she was forced to sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to reveal anything about the film, was kicked out before the film started, and eventually snuck back in to view all but 25 minutes of the movie.
	chuckcurrie.blogs.com /chuck_currie/film/index.html (9643 words)

	CNN - Review: Visions of a rehash hamper 'Stir of Echoes' - September 16, 1999
		Films like "The Godfather" (1972) and "The Searchers" (1956) run all the usual signifiers up the flagpole.
		The film eventually becomes a game of "name that reference," but if you've seen (or read about) the picture and think Koepp's screenplay is ripping off Stephen King's 1980 "The Shining," you're very, very wrong.
		Andersson informs me that "A Stir of Echoes," the Richard Matheson novel on which Koepp based his screenplay originally was published in 1958, years before King started cranking them out for fun and profit.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9909/14/review.stirofechoes/index.html (1086 words)

	CRAVEONLINE: Superman: The Ultimate Collectorâs Edition / film & tv review
		It was necessary to sort through six tons of footage and audio stems to reconstruct the film to a state that comes as close as possible to what it was supposed to have been.
		That was the exact moment in the film when Superman appears for the first time in an effect that could only be described as a paper cutout of the Man Of Steel being pushed toward the camera on a stick.
		Donner and Mankiewicz dish the dirt on the film (films, actually, Superman and Superman II were, of course, filmed simultaneously by Donner) and the stuff that never made it to the screen.
	www.craveonline.com /filmtv/articles/04647313/superman_the_ultimate_collector.html (9039 words)

	Stir Crazy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stir Crazy News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		The first revolves around Simon Pegg's early training for his many action sequences in the film.
		Film credits for Richard Pryor include: In this file photo from CBS, Richard Pryor is shown in this Nov. Comment?
	www.topix.net /movies/stir-crazy (564 words)

	spin and stir: film festival updates Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Takia is already a bit famous in some circles for his 2 brilliant short films (one nominated for an Academy Award), Two Cars, One Night about two kids in a car waiting on their parents and Tama Tu, which tells the story of a soldier in the field of battle with no words.
		Mike White's new film, Year of the Dog, is a quirky dark comedy about one woman’s (SNL’s Molly Shannon) love for her dog and well, hilarious dissent into animal companionship and obsessive thinking.
		An Australian film directed and written by Matthew Saville (whose directing is quite good) from Arclight Films that starts off as what seems to be a horror and then changes into a quirky character study.
	www.spinandstir.com /film_festival_updates (8612 words)

	Stir Crazy
		Most of the laughs concern their survival strategies in prison (at one point, Wilder decides to "reach out and talk" to some hulking murderer) and their plans to escape.
		Both performers are so brilliant in any situation that they give this film plenty of funny moments (one or two of which became instantly classic), but this is not exactly a film for the ages.
		Richard Prior and Gene Wilder are as fun as ever in this film about two guys who go to jail after they are set up for a crime they didnt commit.
	www.amarillometro.com /shopping/stir-crazy_0767827635.html (290 words)

	Eve's Bayou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Smollett manages a fine performance in the film, holding her own with the likes of heavyweight Jackson.
		Smollett experiences a nasty shock early in the film, having fallen asleep in a back room at a party, only to awaken to witness her father doing the nasty with a wayward woman.
		At times Lemmons' clear inexperience as a writer is delightful; film scripts are far too prone to formula, and Lemmons wanders fairly efficiently for the first half of the movie.
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	DVD Review - Stir Crazy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The film’s color scheme looks slightly dated but colors themselves are vibrant and vivid without oversaturation or bleeding.
		Dialog is always clear and well integrated in the overall soundfield of the film.
		This film shows Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor at the peak of their collaboration.
	www.dvdreview.com /reviews/pages/45.shtml (173 words)

	Sidney Poitier
		The first African-American actor to achieve leading man status in Hollywood films, Poitier combines attractiveness and poise with an innate projection of dignity and self-assurance.
		(1959, film 1961), and such films as the pioneering
		Sidney Poitier - Actor, born 20 February 1927, The star of the 1967 film In The Heat of the Night
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	Stir Crazy (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She is never seen interacting with anyone involved with the prison other than Skip, and he of course wouldn't have known that Graham and the guards were plotting against him.
		Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Stir Crazy (1980)
		Stir Crazy or See No Evil Hear No Evil???
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0081562 (272 words)

	spin and stir: film festivals Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The film chronicles the slow death of a suicide bomber and its impact on the innocent victims through the eyes of a young anonymous girl.
		If a film explicitly uses such a device, as does Little Miss Sunshine, with a set of characters that are all coincidentally facing key turning points in their lives while driving an actual vehicle, then it'd be normal to fear a boringly predictable film.
		This is Laurie Collyer’s first dramatic film – (FYI: she went to Sundance in 2000 with the documentary, NUYORICAN DREAM), and although she is good with actors as proved here, she isn’t as good at putting a fiction story together that doesn’t rely on cliché and confusing storylines.
	www.spinandstir.com /film_festivals (5762 words)

	Amazon.com: Stir Crazy: Video: Gene Wilder,Richard Pryor,Georg Stanford Brown,JoBeth Williams,Miguel Ángel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Even though it's pretty much an adult film, with swearing, nudity and adult themes, I found it to be hilarious at such a young age and I watched it few times.
		I've never really seen in do a crazy, comedic performance, so for him to be so on-the-ball and humorous behind the camera is always a surprise when watching Stir Crazy.
		It's not just a crazy comedy, it's also a character drama with wonderfully surreal and authentic moments (mass-mass-mass murderer Grossberger sining 'Down in the Valley' and proving to be as timid as a kitten being one of them).
	www.amazon.com /Stir-Crazy-Gene-Wilder/dp/0800104730 (1537 words)

	FilmHead.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What looks like an ill-timed The Sixth Sense-like film, actually turns out to be a far superior work of horror, with a terrific sense of humor.
		Stir of Echoes doesn't quite live up to those, but it is still quite good.
		Then again, people might realize that a film that is good from beginning to end is better than a film that has a suprise ending, but is otherwise weak.
	filmhead.com /reviews/stirofechoes.html (498 words)

	Stir of Echoes
		Unfortunately, a couple of plot points here are similar to those in The Sixth Sense, and probably for that very reason, it didn't do well.
		Stir of Echoes is a harder-edged, more manic vision of what happens when the dead need us to help them.
		Kevin Bacon actually delivers one of my favorite of his performances and the rest of the cast fits so well, that the movie is almost seamless in that area.
	www.xmission.com /~tyranist/horror/reviews/s/StirofEchoes.html (565 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Stir Crazy
		This is not coarse, broadly played humor (a la Dumb and Dumber) but a lower-key, average-guys-in-trouble sort of situational comedy well suited to the talents of this pair of actors.
		While the color palette is not as vibrant as more modern films, this is not the fault of the transfer, but rather the time when this film was made, nearly twenty years ago.
		If you like the film as much as I do, you will also be sorely disappointed by the lack of extras.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/stircrazy.php (1524 words)

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