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Stuck

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 25 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Horror | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Stuart Gordon
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 30, 2008
DVD: October 14, 2008
Running Time: 94 minutes, Color
Origin: Canada | USA | UK
Summary
RATING: R for strong violence, disturbing content, sexuality/nudity, language and drug use
Starring Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, and Rukiya Bernard
Stuck is a tabloid-tinged thriller inspired by true events. Brandi is a compassionate young retirement-home caregiver in-line for a promotion. Tom is a victim of the downsized economy, out of work and newly homeless. Their worlds collide when Brandi, driving home from a club after too many drinks and pills, accidentally hits Tom, the impact smashing his body head-first through her car’s windshield. If discovered, this “accident” will extinguish her bright future, so instead of saving him, her plan is to let him pass and dispose of the body later. Faced with this reality, Tom knows he must escape if he wants to survive. (THINKFilm)
What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It's a righteously nasty piece of work, and a rare example of a movie that traffics in B-movie grime without a trace of "Grindhouse"-style self-consciousness.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Stuart Gordon, the mostly under-the-radar director of "Re-Animator," pops back into view with this amusing trifle -- a piece of scuzzy tabloid noir.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
A drum-tight, extremely grisly thriller. And odd as it may sound given the subject matter, it's also surprisingly funny.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Rea, with his hangdog looks and Jimmy Stewart line readings, spends a good deal of his time writhing in fake blood and broken shards - not what you'd call glamorous work, but he does it with conviction.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Unlike the worthless torture porn that is destroying the genre, Stuck is a horror movie with a reason for being.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
These people can behave well or poorly, but they were already bugs on the windshield of life before their unhappy collision.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Stuck, while not strictly a horror film, is steeped in gore and carries a seam of mocking gallows humor as relentless as that of "Sweeney Todd."
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
Suvari's increasingly loopy and cruel selfishness is its own nifty moral suspense, while Rea's sad sack vibe -- he already looks like a collision victim in the pre-accident scenes -- is a bleakly amusing counterpoint to his gritty refusal to go quietly.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Ingeniously nasty and often shockingly funny as it incrementally worsens a very bad situation, then provides a potent payoff with the forced feeding of just desserts.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
Stuck is both darkly comic and disgusting; the name alone reduces the crime to a sick joke.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Laugh? Cry? I thought I'd die, but then that's the genius of Gordon.
Read Full Review >NPR Bob Mondello
Stuart Gordon's inventions -- vivid, gruesome and occasionally quite funny -- offer a just-deserts ending and make both characters surprisingly active participants in their fates.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Mena Suvari has her best role since "American Beauty" as Brandi, a self-centered nursing home employee distinctly lacking in sympathy for anyone.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
This is not enjoyable entertainment, but it is brutally watchable.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
There are times when it is bitingly funny and times when its bloodiness can cause a wince and a shudder - but director Stuart Gordon is not adept at blending the two extremes into a cohesive whole.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
A taut drama that manages to be thoughtful without forgetting it's a creep-out.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Thanks to Suvari, audiences laugh nervously at the mortification of soul and flesh, but she doesn't really do them much of a favor. She simply keeps them watching as a would-be gross-out comedy turns into would-be gross-out tragedy.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, Karl Marx said. That might explain the possibility of even making a movie such as Stuck.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
At its best, Gordon's work is bracing and pointed, though it's not for the queasy.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Gordon made similar lurches all over the map in his previous exercise in grotesquerie, "Edmond," which was based on a David Mamet play and starred William H. Macy as, of all things, a racist misogynist on a grisly bender. Stuck could have used some of that outrageousness.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
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.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The film becomes an aria of agony--but with a rousingly yucko finish!
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
The question is why the time, talent and treasure of such energetic and even gifted artists have been marshaled in such a disgusting and trivial genre exercise and what viewers are supposed to get out of it. Isn't life hard enough?
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
As the title of this splatter comedy by writer-director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) indicates, he's like a bug stuck to her windshield, and that's about the level of humanity and insight one can expect here.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
