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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 4517
Released: October 19, 1999 |
| Our Price: $7.39 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In 1930's Harlem two men are framed for murder, what ensues is a comical look at their lives together in prison over the next sixty years.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-JAN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Description of Life:
Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy play it surprisingly straight in this film by director Ted Demme. Though there are laughs to be had, this is a story about perseverance in the face of a life of disappointment (yet the film was sold as a prison comedy). But Stir Crazy this isn't. Rather, Lawrence and Murphy play a couple of New Yorkers making a moonshine run from New York to Mississippi during the Prohibition who find themselves framed for murder and sentenced for life to a prison chain gang. As they age, the two become close friends, although the strait-laced Lawrence always resents the free-wheeling Murphy for getting him into the situation in the first place. Ultimately, these two men learn to find meaning where they can, taking value from friendship and their limited ability to affect the lives of others. At times preachy, it ends on an upbeat note; the film's biggest laughs are reserved for the final section, in which Lawrence and Murphy don age makeup and play octogenarians. --Marshall Fine
Life Reviews:
Serious and Funny - 
2009-11-30 - Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a prison comedy underlined by serious social commentary - wasted lives. Ray Murphy, a pick-pocket and con man, and Claude Lawrence), a straight-living bank teller, are complete opposites who cross paths in a 1932 Harlem nightclub. In order to pay off their debts to a local crime lord, the mismatched pair travel into the Deep South on a moonshine delivery only to be framed for murder by a racist Southern cop. Sentenced to life in a Mississippi state prison, the bickering duo spend the next 65 years trading barbs and planning their escape, while forming an unlikely but touching friendship. They finally escape substituting dead bodies for their own in a arson-fire - and end the movie together watching a Yankees game together. There are a few good laughs, but it's not what one would expect from the two comedians - it's more a friendship movie that develops over time.
good movie but not as funny
2009-10-02 - This is a great movie but it is adverstised as comedy and it has more drama than comedy. Two of my favorite comedians, Martin Laurence and Eddy Murphy are excellent, but the movie is not as funny and it looks on the cover.
Great 
2009-05-26 - This was A gift. It was a good surprise. Keep up the good work I received this movie really quickly.
hmmm
2009-04-08 - Great Movie, I didn't give it a 5 stars because it reminded me the injustice of the South at the time. Overall a fun movie to watch not the best.
That's Life
2009-02-13 -
I loved this movie . The characters are great and to see people age during incarceration was quite a journey.
Lots of hidden metaphors about making bad judgements , the company one keeps and the horror of entrapment .
Makes one want to live their life on the outside joyfully.
A fan
