Stuck

Stuck
by Stuart Gordon

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Actor: Mena Suvari, Rukiya Bernard, Russell Hornsby, Stephen Rea
Director: Stuart Gordon
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

DVD Reviews of Stuck

DVD Review: Pleasantly Surprised!
Summary: 4 Stars

After a fun evening out on the town, my date and I stopped to rent a movie. She picked "Stuck." I first thought "oh, God, I am going to be 'stuck' in B movie hell for the rest of the evening. I suggested that I first log onto Amazon.com to check the reviews on the movie before we committed to it (I know, I am a movie review geek!). She insisted that we just try it out without reading reviews. This made me cringe because I almost never gamble like this with my beloved movies. We watched the movie and I actually enjoyed the film much more than my date! It was really entertaining!

I thought the acting was fairly decent, Mena Suvari did a good job as well as the other main characters, and the movie was quite suspenseful and held my attention throughout. I even was satisfied with the ending. I think this movie at least deserves a rental.

DVD Review: Garage days
Summary: 3 Stars

Stuck, starring Mena Suvari, is a dark, urban drama of sorts that centers on a true event. Although in real life the outcome was different, the makers of this film seemed to create quite a few different scenarios that all keep one on the edge of their seats. Suvari does an excellent job in her part, as the nurses assistant whose balance between an up and coming career and a big, partying lifestyle are disrupted one night when she is involved in a hit and run accident that takes the victim home with her.

I was expecting much less in terms of a good script and memorable characters, and overall was surprised at the careful detail that was laid out for this film. Sure, it isn't anything to write home about, but still smooth, as well as gritty enough, to keep your attention. The final scene has a few surprises in it and even adds a few slight touches of humor as well.

DVD Review: Self-absorption taken to the extreme
Summary: 4 Stars

When I saw this movie at the local DVD store, I couldn't believe they actually made a movie based the real-life incident where a driver hit a man, then drove home with the guy still stuck in the windshield, left him badly hurt [but still treatable]in the garage [still stuck], and waited for two days till he died, before disposing of his body [with the help of two others]. That is basically what happened in real-life, and the driver is now serving a 50 year sentence in prison.

Anyway, in this movie, Mena Suvari plays Brandi, a nursing home aide who gets along with her co-workers and patients and appears to be a well-balanced, happy person, and eager to please. When Brandi is informed by her superior that she might get promoted, she is ecstatic and goes out with her friends to celebrate. High on alcohol and drugs, Brandi drives home that night only to get into an accident - she hits an unemployed, down-on-his luck pedestrian Tom [Stephen Rea]. The poor guy goes through her windshield with half his body dangling out of it, and what does the horrified Brandi do? She drives to a hospital, but changes her mind and then drives home, parks her car in the garage with the hapless Tom still stuck and proceeds to engage in sexual antics with her boyfriend, drug dealer Rashid [Russell Hornsby] who is clueless about what happened.

Brandi is a character that one cannot feel any empathy for - she is all about self-preservation and despite the dire circumstances she is in, she keeps rationalising her refusal to render Tom any aid with the excuse that Tom is the one that caused the accident and repeatedly asks,"Why are you doing this to me?", holding Tom responsible for jeopardising her promotion chances. In her deluded mind, Brandi is guilt-free, and desperately wishes Tom will just 'go away', i.e. die and enlists the help of her dope dealer BF to get rid of the 'inconvenience'.

What ensues is filmed quite brilliantly - there are plenty of comedic moments, but more of the black "I can't believe this is happening/she's doing this/ they're not doing anything" variety than the LOL ones. There is one really funny scene though that has to do with Brandi discovering Rashid up to some hi-jinks and her reaction to that.

In terms of character development, Brandi's was well-done by Mena Suvari - from an affable, caring nursing aid to someone whose moral compass has done a full about-turn, Suvari does an incredible job of convincing us that this is possible in a person. The other character that I thought was brilliantly portrayed is Stephen Rea's Tom, the hurt, desperate and eventually maddened victim who fights to survive and get back at his tormentors.

Final verdict - this is a movie that might not stick [pun intended] in your imagination for long, but well worth viewing for the excellent character portrayal and dark comedy elements.

DVD Review: Stuck On Stuart Gordon
Summary: 4 Stars

Like David Cronenberg, Stuart Gordon has strayed from the horror genre for his last few films, but he's still got the knack for the gruesome and disturbing. With Stuck he uses the 2001 Chante Mallard case as the basis for this film. Mena Suvari(an actress I could never stand) works at a nursing home and is first choice for a promotion. While driving home from a night of partying and screwing around on her cell phone(Ya See? Ya See? They've been telling us it's dangerous and no one listens!) she hits Stephen Rea. Rea has pretty much just become a bum. He was downsized and his life goes from crappy to very crappy. Soon he's pushing a cart around and looking for somewhere to sleep. So, he ends up stuck in Suvari's windshield, but she has no intentions of helping the man. She's scared, she's got a big promotion on the way, and most importantly, she believes the incident was Rea's fault, not her own. The movie really pushes this point home as Suvari keeps saying, "It wasn't my fault" or yells, "Why are you doing this to me??" to a bloodied and shredded Stephen Rea who's dangling helpless from her windshield. You really grow to despise her quite quickly. I didn't need much help since I don't like her anyway.
With time running out and problems mounting at the workplace, Suvari gets her drug dealing boyfriend in on it, and they devise a plan to kill Rea and dispose of his body. Meanwhile, Rea is going through the agonizing process of trying to free himself from the window glass as well as trying to call attention to himself and fruitlessly begging Suvari.
Needless to say it's pretty off the wall and crazy stuff. But as they say, truth is stranger than fiction. Though this film was based on a true crime, much of it is fictionalized. Some scenes and points made in the film are straight from the news story, but in reality the man died only after a few hours of being stuck in the glass. This film has to make it a bit more exciting than that, so things go in a totally different direction than they actually did in real life.
Though I'll always love and think of Gordon as a horror film director, I've really enjoyed his past three non-horror films. I hope he keeps it up.

DVD Review: very well done, sick slice of life movie (no pun intended)
Summary: 5 Stars

The poor guy, down on his luck, gets thrown out of his room, becomes a pushcart, street person, gets hit by a car and is thrown into the windshield of one of the biggest movie morons I've ever seen. Now instead of taking the poor guy to an emergency room or a police station even, no this idiot drives home and pulls the car and the bleeding, broken guy, that's still stuck in the windshield, into her garage, shuts the lite off and goes in her house. Movie was well done, disturbing and sad, because people are really like this. Enjoy!

Description of Stuck

Mena Suvari (American Beauty) unforgettably stars as Brandi, a hard-partying, overworked nursing assistant in this delicious, darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond). Brandi accidentally steers her car into a homeless man, movingly played by Stephen Rea (The Crying Game), sending him flying through the windshield. Not wanting to jeopardize a possible job promotion, she chooses not to get him medical help, leaving him clinging to life in her garage. But soon her psyche begins to unravel as captor and captive are pitted against each other in a bloody...even outrageous battle for survival. Director Stuart Gordon delivers what Variety called "ingeniously nasty and often shockingly funny" entertainment.

Stuck, a cunning and energetic thriller, takes its premise from the real-life incident of a woman who hit a homeless man, then drove home and parked the car in the garage--with the man wedged halfway through her windshield. The genius of Stuck is that it not only squeezes every possible drop of gruesomeness out of this event, it also portrays everyone involved as a fully-rounded human being. Brandi (Mena Suvari, American Beauty), the driver, is a nurse at a retirement home who genuinely cares about her patients and is struggling for a promotion; for Tom (Stephen Rea, The Crying Game), being hit by a car is only the latest in a long line of misfortunes and indignities. But this is no earnest tragedy--instead, when the movie seems about to become a grim psychological portrait of denial and trauma, it shifts into high gear as a brutally funny black comedy. Director Stuart Gordon, best know for the over-the-top horror of Re-Animator, keeps most of Stuck slyly underplayed, to superb effect. The simple but effectively constructed script zips along, zigging and zagging within a very tightly framed situation. Suvari, Rea, and the rest of the cast (including excellent newcomers Russell Hornsby and Rukiya Bernard) commit to every emotional twist, turning from suspense to satire with adroit skill. This movie was made on a modest budget but has more thrills, laughs, and genuine tingles up and down the spine than all the special effects money can buy. A gem of tight, effective filmmaking. --Bret Fetzer

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