Stuck gives a boost to the dramatic elements of the story, while preserving the stern lesson about a society crumbling under the weight of self-interest and moral decay.
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07/18/08
Stuck (2008)
71 %
Reviews Counted: 68 Fresh: 48 Rotten:20 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Consensus:
Steeped in gallows humor, Stuck is a taut, tense examination of a tragic accident.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Theatrical Release: May 30, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Best known for his horror classics RE-ANIMATOR (1985), FROM BEYOND (1986), and DOLLS (1987), director Stuart Gordon turned to character-driven thrillers in the early 2000s with KING OF THE ANTS (2003) and EDMOND (2005). STUCK continues in that vein, exploring humankind's potential for... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
Director: Stuart Gordon
Screenwriter: John Strysik
Story: Stuart Gordon
Producer: Stuart Gordon, Christian Arnold-Beutel, Robert Katz, Jay Firestone, Ken Gord
Composer: Bobby Johnston
Screenwriter: John Strysik
Story: Stuart Gordon
Producer: Stuart Gordon, Christian Arnold-Beutel, Robert Katz, Jay Firestone, Ken Gord
Composer: Bobby Johnston
Reviews
Top Critic
It makes for a taut little horror story, in which the 'monster' is not identifiable by horns or fangs.
07/18/08
You might hope for fiction to bring insight to senseless cruelty, rather than augment the ignominy of the original crime.
07/18/08
Top Critic
Director Stuart Gordon has insightfully shown the humorous side to a very un-humorous--even heinous--story of our fellow citizens behaving at their absolute worst.
07/12/08
Stuck lost me the moment it started going for cheap laughs. Are we really meant to snicker at his suffering and at this awful, awful woman?
07/11/08
"Stuck" does what any good B movie should, working its way under your skin with a mix of gory jolts and outrageous humor, while cutting uncomfortably close to the bone in its look at how people really behave under pressure.
07/07/08
Gordon's fantastic finale is immensely satisfying, more than compensating for the prior weaknesses.
06/26/08
There's no shortage of scenes that you'll watch through your fingers, groaning -- but you'll watch all the same.
06/26/08
Top Critic
A black-hearted ripped-from-the-headlines number that looks and feels like it could have walked out a '70s grind house just yesterday.
06/17/08
A splatter flick that stays a splatter flick. In spite of some glimpses of genius, this film never strays far enough from the genre into potentially promising moral territory.
06/17/08
...will attract the Stuart Gordon fans and those familiar with the real events that made national news back in 2001.
06/13/08
Screenwriter John Strysik could have written the script for Stuck on Post-Its. It slaps endless reminders of social significance over the fictionalized case of a female driver who hit a pedestrian and left him snagged and disabled in her windshield.
06/13/08
Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's murky misuse of Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea makes John Carpenter movies look like Art.
06/12/08
Gordon is a masterful storyteller when he's clicking on all cylinders. It's his best film in years.
06/09/08
Director Stuart Gordon ripped the 2001 story of Chante Mallard from the headlines and has fashioned a startling morality play while serving his fan base with blackly humorous, squirm inducing gore.
06/07/08
The movie's tone shifts all over the place until it's such a blur you're not sure which parts are working and which aren't.
06/06/08
Even though it may seem a long haul at just 85 minutes, it pays off by the time things finally start spiraling into hell.
06/06/08
Unlike the worthless torture porn that is destroying the genre, Stuck is a horror movie with a reason for being.
06/06/08
Stuck is a shot at making a cult film that doesn't quite come off, which is too bad because Gordon is an intriguing filmmaker whose work is worth a look.
06/06/08
Top Critic
Unfortunately, the film loses its merciless rage toward the end, devolving into a stock and broadly comic thriller about unpleasant people you never quite get to know.
06/06/08
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