Charles Weldon

Malcolm X -- Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader.

One of the looniest pictures to come along in some time! Stir Crazy teams two of the most brilliant and zany comic performers today: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have both been fired from their jobs, so they take off in their van for California to seek fame and fortune, but somewhere along the way the van conks out and they're broke and...well, they have to eat, right? So they land a gig as singing and dancing woodpeckers to promote a bank opening. When two bank robbers steal their costumes and stick up the bank, guess who gets the blame? Skip and Harry are carted off to the state pen for 125 years. They try to keep their sanity and their lives amidst: a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and an inter-prison rodeo - all with great hilarity.

African-American ad executive Bruford Jamison Jr. (Eriq La Salle) works on campaigns selling Mumblin' Jack Malt Liquor and General Otis' Fried Chicken (with a Confederate flag image on the bucket) to the black community. Soon, Bruford gets a visit from the D.R.O.P. Squad, activists who "deprogram" him to raise his consciousness about racial stereotypes. This wry satire costars Ving Rhames and Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Spike Lee appears in a cameo.

Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington (the New York, Boston and Chicago Film Critics' choice as 1992's Best Actor) and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. "One of the decade's best and most important films." (Arch Campbell, WRC-TV/Washington D.C.) One of the most charismatic and politically controversial voices in history, Malcolm X burst into the public consciousness with a radical perspective on race relations in America. His inspiring and enlightening ideologies touched and continue to influence the lives of millions. The New York Film Critic's Circle awarded Denzel Washington Best Actor for his role in what Newsday calls "an extraordinary movie...powerful and compelling. Denzel Washington's performance is a tour de force!"

Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader.

Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader.

Filmmaker Spike Lee, star Denzel Washington and other talents vividly portray the life and times of the visionary leader. One of the most charismatic and politically controversial voices in history, Malcolm X burst into the public consciousness with a radical perspective on race relations in America. His inspiring and enlightening ideologies touched and continue to influence the lives of millions.

Frank "Fast-Walking" Miniver wants out of his life as a prison guard. With light-stepping, glib-talking, ease Miniver sets out to make his dreams of a place in Oregon come true by staging a for-profit prison break in this gleeful, gritty caper from thriller specialist James B. Harris.

In their second of four on-screen teamings, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are two slackers who get bum-rapped and shipped directly to the Arizona State Penitentiary (where parts of this big-house comedy were actually filmed). Sidney Poitier helmed this surprise smash hit, which set a new record at the time as the biggest moneymaker by an African-American director. Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams co-star.

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder star in a crazy comedy about two convicts' hilarious attempts to bustout of jail.

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder star in a crazy comedy about two convicts' hilarious attempts to bustout of jail.

One of the looniest pictures to come along in some time! STIR CRAZY teams two of the most brilliant and zany comic performers today: Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Skip (Wilder) and Harry (Pryor) have both been fired from their jobs, so they take off in their van for California to seek fame and fortune, but somewhere along the way the van conks out and they're broke and... well, they have to eat, right? So they land a gig as singing and dancing woodpeckers to promote a bank opening. When two bank robbers steal their costumes and stick up the bank, guess who gets the blame? Skip and Harry are carted off to the state pen for 125 years. They try to keep their sanity and their lives amidst a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and an inter-prison rodeo - all with great hilarity.