# Locos de remate (1980)

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**Original title**: *Stir Crazy*
**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Crime
**Directed by**: Sidney Poitier
**Written by**: Bruce Jay Friedman
**Starring**: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez, Craig T. Nelson

> *Two jailbirds who just want out of the cage.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Some men’s escape plan involves dressing as woodpeckers, which flirts with disaster. After their uniforms get hijacked for a heist they didn’t commit, life behind bars suddenly feels like a paid gig. A feather-light caper that lands heavier than expected.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, playful

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