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What would you do?

THE PLOT

Mena Suvari stars as some white trash version of herself, complete multiple piercings, long and fake fingernails and of course braids. Seriously no white person should every have their hair braided like that, even Bo Derek was pushing the line back in the 80s. Suvari works at a nursing home where she pretty much does what everyone else tells her to, including working on her day off. At the same time Stephen Rea is across town being evicted from his slumlord run boarding house/hotel for nonpayment. He later goes to a job interview where he fights with the interviewer and realizes that his life is fairly unhappy. He finds himself at the local park, learning advice from another homeless man about how to handle life on the streets. Mena and a buddy head out to the local club for a little fun, has way too many drinks and politely declines her boyfriend’s offer of a ride home to get behind the wheel of her own car. See where this is going? While driving drunk and talking on her cell phone (a deadly combination if there ever was one) she accidentally runs over Rea. Seeing no one around, she decides to keep driving, even while his lifeless body hangs inside her car. Once home she realizes the man is still alive, but leaves him in her garage while trying to decide what to do.

FUN TRIVIA

Directed by Stuart Gordon and I really hope that you know who that is!

THOUGHTS/OPINIONS

Stuck is unintentionally funny at times. The idea that you could have sex while someone’s dying in your garage is slightly disturbing, but the scene itself is pretty funny. At one point she looks up and sees the dead man and starts screaming and her boyfriend just gets into it because he think she’s really enjoying herself. He’s also a terrible boyfriend by the way. When she tells him about hitting the man, he tells her it’s no big deal and he’s killed lots of homeless guys over the years, sometimes in broad daylight. What a keeper.

Poor Rea really got the short end of the stick in Stuck. He spends most of the movie trapped inside the windshield of a car and a good portion of that time trying to reach an errant cell phone to call for help. Poor guy.

There’s a great scene where a homeless man spots the car and tells the police, “he’s stuck to that car like a bug” and the police ignore his rants. There’s also neighbors who hear the man screaming, see him in the garage and refuse to call the police because they’re illegal immigrants. That and there’s a naked girl cat fight, if that’s the kind of thing you’re into, which obviously I’m not. There’s also a great scene towards the ending; I won’t ruin it for you, but you’ll know it when you get there.

The movie Stuck relies too heavily on an older episode of “CSI” that covered this same storyline only better because it only lasted 45 minutes. I thought there might be some social commentary on the plight of the homeless, maybe a lesson learned but there was nothing. There was some blood and the crash scene was better than I expected, but everything else was a little lacking.

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