Two jailbirds who just want out of the cage.
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
$10,000,000
$101,300,000
December 12, 1980
Columbia Pictures
63 people
Gene Wilder
Skip Donahue
Acting
Richard Pryor
Harry Monroe
Acting
Georg Stanford Brown
Rory Schultebrand
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JoBeth Williams
Meredith
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Miguel Ángel Suárez
Jesus Ramirez
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Craig T. Nelson
Deputy Ward Wilson
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Barry Corbin
Warden Walter Beatty
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Charles Weldon
Blade
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Nicolas Coster
Warden Henry Sampson
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Joel Brooks
Len Garber
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Jonathan Banks
Jack Graham
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Erland van Lidth
Grossberger
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