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Directed By
Stuart Gordon
Written By:
Stuart Gordon, John Strysik
Cast:
Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Brian Johnson, Marguerite McNeil, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, R.D. Reid, Wayne Robson, Lionel Mark Smith, John Dunsworth, Sharlene Royer, Liam McNamara, John Dartt, Mauricio Hoyos, Wally MacKinnon, Patrick McKenna, Liam McNamara, Martin Moreno, Lorena Rincon, Suzanne Short, Bunthivy Nou
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Stuck (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
October 19th, 2008
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There was a point during this movie when I would have given it 4 stars and then it just kind of started to spiral out of control. I was interested in watching it because I remembered reading snippets about the true story which it was based on. A black woman in Texas hit a homeless white man in 2001, while driving home from a party. She left him stuck in the windshield of her car and checked on him over the course of the next day, until he'd bled out from his injuries, after which she called a friend to help her dispose of his body and between herself, her friend and his cousin, took the body & car to a park and burned it to destroy the evidence.
Much of this is included in the movie itself, aside from changing the woman's ethnicity to Caucasian, I suspect to not seem racist. (The woman was charged after she was heard laughing and telling people at another party that she'd "hit a white man.") But the main story is fairly accurate to the original account. However, what the film's director or screenwriter decided to do with the movie veered more into an unbelievable action storyline, as if this were The Bride from KILL BILL avenging a death come too soon.
Stephen Rea, an actor I've always admired, is good as the homeless man. He gets to play him as being more down-on-his-luck and misunderstood as a byproduct of a bad economy rather than just a bum. But he's also endowed with an inhuman amount of strength to fight his way out of the situation, where in the real story the man just stayed stuck in the windshield. I know that doesn't make for good cinema, but it's far more believable and interesting to watch than the melodrama that instead unfolds here.
I can understand people not wanting to see a person die of horrible circumstances, which might be why the woman in the real story was sentenced to 50 years in prison at her 2003 sentencing. But at the same time, to turn a dramatic story into a gory thriller hardly seems the proper way to pay tribute to a poor dead homeless man either.
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