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Genre | Horror |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Blu-ray, NTSC, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Subtitled |
Contributor | Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Mena Suvari, Stuart Gordon, Rukiya Bernard |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 25 minutes |
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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.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : IMG5098BR
- Director : Stuart Gordon
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Blu-ray, NTSC, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 25 minutes
- Release date : October 14, 2008
- Actors : Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Studio : Image Entertainment
- ASIN : B001CITQZY
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #106,439 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,189 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #4,151 in Horror (Movies & TV)
- #7,373 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Customers find this movie beautiful and entertaining, with good acting performances. The storyline receives positive feedback, with one customer noting it's based on a true event.
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Customers find the movie beautiful and entertaining, with one mentioning it's worth watching a second time.
"This movie was okay but I didn't appreciate the overuse of foul language and nudity. It was unnecessary and didn't add anything to the movie...." Read more
"A beautiful movie as good as the first time I saw it. That broad was pure evil...." Read more
"...intelligent story telling, it all comes together to make a wonderfully entertaining movie. It isn’t perfect, but what movie is?..." Read more
"...I guess she is off the clock. This movie was frustrating, but good. Think about yourself...." Read more
Customers praise the acting in the movie, with one noting that the cast delivers top-notch performances in their roles.
"...Overall, ‘Stuck’ is a gem of a movie. The cast are all pretty top notch in their roles, especially Stephen Rea as the hapless (though not for long)..." Read more
"Not a great movie, but good filler for a slow weekend. Acting is better than average, probably worth watching a second time." Read more
"A very interesting and well-made film with good acting by Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea. The DVD has excellent picture and sound." Read more
Customers enjoy the movie's storyline, with one customer noting it's based on a true event.
"...as usual, tight and shows that he can handle more serious, dramatic subject matter with the same inventiveness he has displayed previously without..." Read more
"Absolutely riveting! A true story that keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2009Metaphorically Gordon's Stuck could be viewed as the result of Reganomics and the trickle down theory which viewed in present day only works if the trickle starter were upside down. A social commentary with many layers along the lines of Romero's Dawn of the Dead(78) where the main character hits a man with her car and drives home with him "stuck" in the windshield. For fear of losing her promotion at work decides she would rather commit murder than lose her job and even her neighbors' pass on helping him for fear of being deported.
Don't like your job? Stuck. Want to sell your home? Stuck. Cash out your investments? Stuck. Put gas in your car? Stuck. Want to remain sane but are tied up S&M style with red tape? Stuck.
Negatively we can look at it like Gilliam's brilliant (uncut) film Brazil and that the only way to be free is to go crazy. Positively the trick is to have no windshield or to many of us will end up like Flick in A Christmas Story, crying stuck? Stuck? Stuck!
- Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2023Packaged well and worked on both my players.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024Excellent horror film!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2023This movie was okay but I didn't appreciate the overuse of foul language and nudity. It was unnecessary and didn't add anything to the movie. However, you do feel bad for the guy stuck in her windshield because his dad started bad and didn't get better.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018A beautiful movie as good as the first time I saw it. That broad was pure evil.To bad it didn't work out for the real man it was based on as it did for Stephan Rea.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021... excluding his contributions to Mick Garris' Masters of Horror anthologies.
In recent years, director Stuart Gordon has branched out from the H.P. Lovecraft adaptions he was famous for and started to creep towards more realistic scenarios, and although ‘Stuck’ is pretty far removed from the gorefest that is ‘Re-Animator’, it still has its fair share of gruesome moments and black humor. Based on real events, Gordon and writer John Strysik have injected the basic story with a venomous satirical slant that echoes classic George A.Romero and makes what could have been an already bizarre story into a rather more interesting tale.
The story centers around the tragic figure of Thomas Bardo (Stephen Rea), an unemployed man who gets thrown out of his lodgings for not paying his rent. After an unsuccessful visit to the employment office, where he is made to feel even more insignificant by his advisor by being told he isn’t on their system, even though he’s filled out all the correct forms already. Now jobless, homeless and with no cash at all, Thomas is forced to find a park bench to sleep on, where he befriends another homeless man who gives him a shopping cart. Meanwhile, elder care assistant Brandi (Mena Suvari, surprisingly quite good) is up for a promotion, and to celebrate she has gone out on the town with her friend and colleague Tanya, and her drug-dealing boyfriend Rashid (Russell Hornsby), who gives the girls ecstasy tablets. Brandi and Rashid leave the club and decide to meet up at Brandi’s house later on. Unwisely choosing to drive, Brandi makes her way home, but driving whilst on drugs and using a cell phone isn’t sensible as Brandi loses concentration for a second and hits Bardo, who had been moved on by the police and was on his way to a homeless shelter. Rather than bounce off the hood, though, Bardo goes headfirst into the windshield and manages to get stuck (do you see what they did there?) half in and half out of the car. Brandi panics and drives home, where she realizes that Bardo is still alive. She parks in her garage and goes in the house where Rashid turns up a few minutes later. Brandi tells him what happened but misses out the part about Bardo still being stuck in the windshield. Believing that Brandi hit a street bum and drove off, Rashid convinces her that no-one will come looking for a homeless guy and that she’s in the clear.
The next day, Brandi goes to work, and after a tense scene involving a taxi driver almost discovering Bardo in the garage, Brandi realises that she has left her cell phone in her car. Meanwhile, Bardo has also discovered it and tries to phone the police, although not knowing where he is could prove to be a problem. Also, the undocumented family who live next door have discovered Bardo but, due to their own predicament, don’t tell the authorities. Brandi also goes to see Rashid, who she finds in bed with another woman, and tells him the full story and asks for his help, as he has boasted about getting rid of bodies before. As Brandi soon discovers, though, his boasts turn out to be just that, as when Rashid goes to finish Bardo off, he gets more than he bargained for.
Overall, ‘Stuck’ is a gem of a movie. The cast are all pretty top notch in their roles, especially Stephen Rea as the hapless (though not for long) Bardo and Russell Hornsby as the cowardly Rashid, and given the incredible circumstances of the story, it’s all done pretty convincingly. Gordon’s direction is, as usual, tight and shows that he can handle more serious, dramatic subject matter with the same inventiveness he has displayed previously without resorting to dumbing down his style. There are moments of humor amongst the never gratuitous gore, and when combined with Gordon’s intelligent story telling, it all comes together to make a wonderfully entertaining movie. It isn’t perfect, but what movie is? The few editorial gaffes (like a windscreen shattering into shards in one shot, and being laminated in the next) are so minor that it doesn’t distract from the compelling story unfolding on the screen. As mentioned previously, there is also a satirical slant to the story, especially the scenes with Bardo at the employment office, and it can be said that the movie is a perfect "Bush administration film." As with all things, it’s there if you want to see it but it never overshadows the narrative.
There are those that say the events of this movie aren’t what really happened, but in the context of a movie, is that so important? The point is to entertain and maybe make you think a little, and on both of those points ‘Stuck’ can be called a success.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016Absolutely riveting! A true story that keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023Deserves NO stars, so no one else will waste their time watching it,
Top reviews from other countries
- Kevin H.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant film
Great acting brilliant film
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in Canada on February 12, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars As advertised
As advertised.
- pascal thebeauReviewed in Canada on November 21, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm in it lol
Cool
- No1MovieFanReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2010
4.0 out of 5 stars It does stick in your mind, challenging stuff
I came across this film completely by accident of course, but it's amazing what you can find on the internet, and I was reluctant to get it at first, because I knew it would be pretty grim, except it sounded fascinating and I wanted to see Mena Suvari in action. What I got was a damn clever thriller that was based on a true story, which doesn't actually surprise me. And they say that truth is stranger than fiction!! Not in this case, it's not. Apparently, in the real life incident, the driver was prosecuted, but I don't know what happened to the victim. In the film, that was hardly going to happen. It was played out with extreme dark humour, (reminded me of the satirical bite of Robocop actually), and I thought Stephen Rea was extraordinary as the man who is 'stuck' in the windscreen. What amazing effects and it didn't even feel far fetched either. It wasn't anyway, since it was based on fact.
What starts off as a grim story about an accident, delves into what really can happen when you refuse to face consequences of actions which you know will land you in trouble. And Mena Suvari was outstanding as the nurse who has one moment of carelessness which changes her life, but it was the nuances in her character as the film goes on that were impressive. Imagine a nurse who discovers a rather darker side to her nature and her psyche goes through a major change. A nurse!! Ironic in itself. And look out for the scene when she goes a bit crazy when she catches her boyfriend with another girl, and she turns violent!! She starts out being the scared woman who's done something awful, then she turns into a kind of captor, for fear of prosecution (and maybe something else), and she's after a promotion as well. All the stuck man wants is help, but he soon realises that something is very wrong and is forced to help himself, which he actually manages to do, and it becomes a battle for survival. A homeless man really has nothing to lose, so his survival instincts are pretty strong.
It makes for quite grim viewing I suppose, but it certainly has a lot to say about human nature, and it keeps you guessing until the very end. Personally though, I don't think it's quite as grim as many have made it out to be. A car crash itself is grim, but that doesn't mean to say it has to be depressing. I have a copy now and I'm keeping it. Pretty challenging stuff I thought.
- AJPWALESReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars buy it
good movie