Release Date: 10/07/2008
Label/Distributor: Image
Rating: R (Restricted)
Prebook DVD: 09/16/2008
Retail Price: $27.98
Genre: Horror Cast: Carolyn Purdy-Gordon,Stephen Rea,Wayne Robson,Lionel Mark Smith,Patrick McKenna
Director: Stuart Gordon
Running Time: 85
DVD Video Options: Color,Dolby,DVD-Video,NTSC,Subtitled,Widescreen
DVD Audio Options: English;Subtitled,Spanish;Subtitled,English;Original Language
UPC Code: 014381385120
Mena Suvari (American Beauty) unforgettably stars as Brandi, a hard-partying, overworked nursing assistant in this delicious, darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond). Brandi accidentally steers her car into a homeless man, movingly played by Stephen Rea (The Crying Game), sending him flying through the windshield. Not wanting to jeopardize a possible job promotion, she chooses not to get him medical help, leaving him clinging to life in her garage. But soon her psyche begins to unravel as captor and captive are pitted against each other in a bloody...even outrageous battle for survival. Director Stuart Gordon delivers what Variety called "ingeniously nasty and often shockingly funny" entertainment.
Stuck
By Irv Slifkin -- Video Business, 9/8/2008
THINKFILM/IMAGE |
Street: Oct. 14
Prebook: Sept. 9
> Grisly thriller from cult fave Stuart Gordon delivers gore and dark comic goods.
Stuart Gordon of Re-Animator and From Beyond fame proves he can still mix outrageously bloody moments with tongue-in-cheek humor in this perverse parable about today’s insensitive society. Inspired by a true 2001 incident, the film stars Mena Suvari as a geriatric nurse, who, while high on ecstasy, hits a newly homeless man (Stephen Rea) with her car. Frightened and fearing the accident will affect her new job position, she decides to do nothing, leaving his bleeding, battered body stuck in her windshield. Her inability to act in a most dire situation and getting no help from her drug-dealing boyfriend (Russell Hornsby) makes for an unsettling ride that is gripping, gratuitous and sneakily satiric at the same time.
Shelf Talk: Stuck received good reviews in a brief theatrical run, and Gordon has enough followers to warrant the attention of cinema cultists and horror geeks alike. This one also might find favor with arthouse audiences, because it offers an unsettling survey of societal thoughtlessness while featuring several political themes and references. The DVD buzz is already humming on horror-dedicated Web sites.
Thriller, color, R (extreme violence, drug use, sexual situations, nudity, language), 94 min., DVD $27.98, BD $35.98Extras: BD and two-disc Blockbuster exclusive DVD contain director/cast commentary and three featurettes
Director: Stuart Gordon
First Run: L, May 2008, <$1 mil.
