Tuesday 7 April 2009

Stuck (2007) 6/10

Starring : Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard
Director : Stuart Gordon
Running Time : 86 mins

Brandi Boski (Suvari) is a nursing assistant who accidentally hits the recently homeless Thomas Bardo (Rea) in her car while under the influence. Worried she might lose her job over the incident, she drives home with the barely alive Thomas still stuck in the windshield until she can decide what to do.

This is a very cringeworthy movie that takes the true life story of a woman who heartlessly left an apparently homeless man to die in her garage, then joked about it to her friends and tries to make the villain more appealing. Suvari starts off as a likeable person who makes a simple mistake, but soon her involvement with her drug dealer boyfriend and her wish to kill the victim so that she won't lose a possible promotion deaden her to the audience and make the film into nothing but a borderline snuff flick, mixing sex with death.

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