Stuck (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, gore, sex and drug use
- Run time: 1 hour 25 mins
- Genre: Thriller / Drama
- Release date: 9th January 2009
- Starring: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Lionel Mark Smith
- Directed by: Stuart Gordon
- Distributor: High Fliers Films
Plot Synopsis
Inspired by true events, acclaimed director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Edmond, From Beyond, Dagon) delivers the intense, psychological thriller, Stuck starring Mena Suvari (Factory Girl, Rumor Has It, American Beauty, American Pie) and Academy Award-nominee Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta, The Good Shepherd, Breakfast on Pluto, The Crying Game), about two unlikely opponents thrown together in a macabre set of circumstances.
Brandi Boski (Suvari) is a diligent and compassionate retirement home-care giver who sees her life about to improve when her boss hints at a promotion. She intends to celebrate in a big way that night with her boyfriend, Rashid, and her close friend and co-worker Lilly.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Tom (Rea) is having a bad day. He’s out of money, out of a job, and he’s fresh out of luck. When his landlord kicks him out, Tom’s best hope is to find work, and he heads to the State Employment Office in his only clothes, a clean, but shabby suit, in the hopes of making a good impression. No such luck. Tom’s name is not even in the database.
As Brandi drives home from a club after a night on the town, she doesn’t see the man crossing the street in front of her, his head down, paying no attention to the traffic lights. Brandi’s car hits him head on, Tom is lifted off the ground, thrown across the hood, and smashed head first through the windshield as sharp shards of glass cut into him, holding him fast. In complete panic, Brandi accelerates with Tom’s broken torso drumming on the engine hood as she heads for home.
As time passes, circumstances worsen and Brandi comes to the realization that this accident could ruin everything she has been hoping for: her promotion, her job, her new life. She makes a snap decision. Without witnesses to the event, she is going to let her severely injured victim die in her garage—and she convinces her boyfriend to help dispose of the body.
As the minutes turn into hours, and Tom passes in and out of consciousness, he begins to realize the true horror of his circumstance and the fate that awaits him, unless there is some way he can find the strength to remove his battered and broken body from the car. Let’s face it, Tom has had a bad day—but he’s not doing down without a fight.
Stuck explores the human psyche as captor and captive are pitted against each other in a tormented and bloody battle that is about to dash the hopes and future for them both.
