Stuck (2007)

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This is one of the best "based on a true story" movies ever. Girl hits homeless man with car. Man becomes lodged in the windshield. Girl decides to go home instead of the emergency room. Girl leaves man "stuck" while she has sex with her boyfriend and goes to work. Watch this unbelievable story unfold in front of your eyes

Most films eventually s$%# the bed by the third act. This one does, literally, in the first five minutes. . . Intrigued? I'll press on. Stuck is the story of two polar opposite characters that find themselves at odds with each other through a random and cruel series of events. Based on a true story from Fort Worth, TX sometime in the early '00s, screenwriter John Strysik and director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond) rip this bizarre true crime from the headlines and build a unique yin & yang of character and motivation, examined through angles of compassion (lack thereof) and macabre violence. Stuart Gordon has never been more on top of his game.First we meet Brandi Boski (played by Mena Suvari, looking hilarious in cornrows). She works as an R.N. for a convalescent home. The opening credit sequence (perhaps my favorite in recent memory) hilariously juxtaposes the sad reality of a sterile care facility for the elderly, with an abrasive hiphop soundtrack underneath and an animated title graphic. I am immediately won over and ready to be entertained and enlightened. Brandi learns she is a front runner for a promotion, suspiciously, as she's asked to work on a Saturday by her boss (played by Nurse Ratchet). Then we are introduced to Thomas Bardo (interesting factoid: the name Bardo was chosen as the Buddhist term for "intermediate or transitional state of being"), a down on his luck unemployed middle aged man who is carelessly thrown out of his temporary housing having run out of unemployment benefits. Now homeless, he is prowling the same street Brandi is careening down in an inebriated state, celebrating her potential promotion. Thomas is impaled through Brandi's windshield as she drives home (miles away) and parks him in her garage while he bleeds out. Fairly quickly the film puts us in a hopeless position and from the get- go things consistently get worse, for everyone. What do they say about comedy? Tragedy plus time. Tragically, we're in real time and the laughs hit hard and to the bone (like the windshield wiper in Bardo's gut). The humor acts as a coping mechanism for the unrelenting s%^$ storm that blows across the screen. It's nervous laughter, really. Why doesn't Brandi take the injured man to a hospital? Each decision she makes is the wrong one, made out of self preservation. She really wants that promotion, and an extra couple of dollars an hour is worth the blood on her hands (and in her car). After a series of agonizing attempts to free himself, the conclusion is satisfying and awesomely unfaithful to the real event the film was based on. We have to keep championing these tight, clever little movies. I think this film made something like 8 dollars upon it's Blockbuster exclusive DVD release, whereas the flavorless and over-budget umpteenth Godzilla remake is on its way to making over a billion. It is Stuart Gordon's last film and that could be why. He should have made three more by now if you ask me. Let's pay more attention to the nooks and crannies, and hopefully we won't get STUCK!-Aaron Sausedo

I seen this movie few times before, I not seen for some time, may re- watch soon again.I thought the movie was great, I did not find this movie boring at all, it flowed just right. I loved the scenes of the crash, the loved how they made the slow motion effects as the Car hits the Homeless man, it kinds of made it look believable,I thought homeless man acting this movie was outstanding and I don't think the female lead was not that good.At times of the movie it seem that she bored with the movie and sometimes wooded I liked how the movied ended, 7 out of 10

Mena Suvari is a young easygoing nurse who bumps into an out of job and newly homeless Stephen Rea and gets stuck in a situation she wasn't expecting herself to wind up in. Comedy and drama ensue.Stuck came as a true surprise to me. I didn't believe Gordon had it in him to direct a provocative social drama bordering on satire and make it as good if not better than his horror classics From Beyond and Reanimator. I didn't believe I'd be watching a movie starring Mena Suvari, who did a great job too. And Stephen Rea played destitute like few can.I hope Gordon does more non-horror films. Past examples of Mamet-scripted Edmond and Troma-distributed King of the Ants have shown that Stuart Gordon can put the bloodsoaked Lovecraft library aside and do something special. Lucky for him and his fans, he's not among the horror directors who have to cling to their 30yearold genre successes.