Stuck (2007)

Don't waste your time. Go take a nap instead! The characters were not believable. The story line was terrible.

Bardo's luck has run out. He's thrown out of his apartment, penniless and homeless -- social services are rude and useless and the cops won't let him sleep in the park. Just when things couldn't get worse, he literally crosses paths with Brandy who is high on E. Bardo gets embedded in her windshield after she plows him down and leaves him to bleed out in her garage, while she goes about her life. As far as demented comedies go, this one delivers. Even as the comedy gets good and gory, a very good grounded performance by Stephen Rea keeps this from going over the top and you care enough for the poor bastard that you want him to get free from all that glass. The finale heads a bit too far into Stuart Gordon gross out territory, but that is hardly a criticism as we get a bloody audience friendly end. The running time is wisely brisk as there's not much story here, but we get gallows humor by the bucket full. As typical for a Gordon film, it looks visually behind the times by about 15 years, but he gets a quality performance from Suvari, who carries her scenes very well. Stuart Gordon has had such a bizarre career with highs and lows (really lows), from his classic B grade Re- Animator to barely watchable direct to video junk like Castle Freak, this one he knocked out of the park. After the train wreck that was his previous film Edmond, he shows a command of tone and humor and intelligence that has been missing from his work for some time.

Tom(Stephen Rea) has lost his job, been thrown out of his apartment and is minding his business, walking along his merry way, and bam, a woman, Brandi(Mena Suvari), drivers her car into him, and as a result he gets stuck in her windshield. Mena's life was, up to this point, was going great; so awaiting a promotion at work she celebrates with a few drinks which would be a major problem with the law, and so she drives home to hide her car in the garage with Tommy boy sticking from the glass. The suffering victim does not die from his injuries and when Brandi goes back to check on him, with her boyfriend Rashid, they discover that he has freed himself, so the fun loving couple decide to kill him.Stuck then turns almost keystone black comedy with the three battling each other with pens, hammers, guns and anything available with which to do each other harm. The film is supposedly based on a true story making it even more entertaining.

This movie was clearly based on the Texas incident involving an African American, Chante Jawan Mallard, and a homeless white man, Gregory Glen Biggs. The first half of the movie led you down that path. Final half was totally off target and failed to show the true horror of the real story. Leaves you with the false impression that there is justice in the end when in the real case there was none. Gregory Glen Biggs dies horribly, Chante Jawan Mallard gets a 50 year sentence and will be free in 2027 with good behavior. Hope she becomes a neighbor of the screen writers. I felt lied to from the ending created by the writers and fail to understand why the real story would not have been enough to base the entire movie on. Chance to exhibit real stupidity, selfishness and inhumanity goes by and we are no better off in the long run.