
Jailbirds
1991-05-16 · 96 min · ★ 7.7
Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed together.
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- Directors
- Burt Brinckerhoff
- Production companies
- Spelling Entertainment
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Phylicia RashādJanice Grant
Dyan CannonRosie LaCroix
Dakin MatthewsSheriff
David KnellBaxter
Ahmad RashādLarry Braddock
Bethany WrightLoretta
Dennis LettsPoppa
Anne HaneyHaydee
Ritch BrinkleyBeetle
T.E. RussellClemmons
Clyde KusatsuKasaki
Wayne DehartMel
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