Stuck

Stuck (2007): Based on a true incident where a woman hit a homeless man and drove him home when he became wedged in her windshield, director Stuart Gordon (of Re-Animator fame) has made another near classic suspenseful horror comedy. There seems to have been considerable poetic licensing going on with the actual events but the modified story is interesting and will keep you seat edging for most of the way. With an A movie cast of Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari, the story goes off the normal plain of behavior as in most of director Gordon’s previous efforts, and he continues with his traditional massive use of blood bags. And while most of the unstuck characters are not moral pillars of their communities, director Gordon will grind at your conscience. The suspense level escalates as the stuckee may become unstuck or someone may find him with a severe wedgie in Suvari’s garage. The director plays with your sympathies for the hapless stuckee while tugging at your feelings for the rather heartless ingénue well played by Suvari. And just when you think things can’t get any worse, hang on. The movie is rated R for: orbulations and bumulations, graphic sex, drugification, drunkification, splintification, cat fight, wiper blade to the groin, pen to the eye, hammer to the head, fire to the garage, multiple undocumented aliens, lack of bowel control, and for multiple compound fractures.