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Stuck

15 November 2008 12:52 PM, PST | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

This is a great film featuring stellar performances from Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari and sardonic wit and direction by Stuart Gordon best known for 80’s cult flicks like Re-Animator and From Beyond. Lately Gordon has tried his hand at less supernaturally based material. But his adaptation of David Mamets Edmund, as well acted as it was, wasn’t anywhere near as inspired as this often funny, gruesomely pointed film commentary on modern selfishness and societal indifference.

Brandi is a party girl desperately trying to get promoted at the assisted living center where she works as a caregiver. After some hard clubbing, she hits a man with her car while driving home. Thomas is only recently homeless but now he’s stuck in Brandi’s windshield. Brandi now does what anyone would do at this point- she drives home, locks the car in the garage and in terror of not

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New York City Premiere of 'Synecdoche, New York'

16 October 2008 12:30 AM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Bringing the movie back to the city where the movie takes its title, the Cinema Society and Mulberry has presented the New York City premiere of "Synecdoche, New York". Held on Wednesday, October 15, the special event took place at the Loews 19th Street Theatre, New York City.

Though missing the signature red carpet, the premiere still saw the attendance of many Hollywood stars, including those starring in the movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Williams, Hope Davis, Catherine Keener and Tom Noonan were the members of cast ensemble who made time to join director/producer/writer Charlie Kaufman on the special evening.

Beside the cast and crew, other celebrity guests included actresses, Heather Matarazzo, Erika Christensen, Rachel Dratch and Alexie Gilmore, mucisians Adam Duritz and Michael Stipe, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" director Julian Schnabel, and actor Stephen Rea.

"New York" is a drama film from Sony Pictures Classics that follows Caden Cotard,

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This Week on DVD: "War, Inc," "Stuck" and more.

13 October 2008 3:27 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

This week's DVD front offers a buffet of genres as usual, we'll focus on several films in particular which may be of interest. 1. First up we have "Stuck" from Image Entertainment starring Mena Suvari , Stephen Rea , Russell Hornsby , Rukiya Bernard , Carolyn Purdy-Gordon , Lionel Smith , Wayne Robson , Patrick McKenna , Sharlene Royer. Image Entertainment distributes this thriller/horror which first surfaced during the Cannes Film Festival last May and later at the Fantasy Film Fest, followed by a September 10th showing at the Toronto International Film Festival. It saw limited release on May 30th this year. Stuart Gordon, known for his work on "Edmond" starring William H. Macy, helms and writes alongside John Strysik (the "Dark Romances" volume of films). Mena Suvari unforgettably stars as Brandi, a hard-partying, overworked nursing assistant in this delicious, darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Stuart Gordon. Brandi accidentally steers her car into a homeless man, movingly played by Stephen Rea,

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ITV commissions Deasy's 'Father & Son'

8 October 2008 7:41 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

ITV has commissioned Father & Son, a four-part crime drama from Prime Suspect's Frank Deasy. Deasy's story takes place in Ireland and Manchester and centres on ex-con Michael O'Connor as he returns to the UK to save his teenage son from falling into a life of crime. Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea and Ian Hart have been cast in the series, to be directed by Brian Kirk (My Boy Jack). Left (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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"Stuck" DVD clip! Starring Mena Suvari

2 October 2008 6:53 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

We have a 120 second clip from Anchor Bay Entertainment's "Stuck" starring Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Mauricio Hoyos, Lorena Rincon, Sharlene Royer. THINKFilm distributed this theatrically in limited areas on May 30th this year. The R-rated film is helmed by Chicago born "Stuart Gordon," a maestro in the horror thriller indie genre with films like William H. Macy starrer "Edmond" and the classic "The Pit and the Pendulum." Suvari's career has moved more towards the indie, TV and video releases lately, with no apparent upcoming project film-wise.

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Press Release & Cover Art For Stuart Gordon's Stuck! On DVD October 14th!

3 September 2008 12:16 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Director Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond) delivers what Variety dubbed an “ingeniously nasty and often shockingly funny” film when Image Entertainment debuts Stuck on DVD and Blu-ray™ October 14. Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Academy Award® nominee Stephen Rea (Best Actor, The Crying Game, 1993), and Russell Hornsby (Meet the Parents, Big Fat Liar) star in the darkly humorous psychological thriller about a young woman who commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

The extensive bonus features on the two-disc Stuck Blockbuster Exclusive DVD include audio commentary from Director Stuart Gordon, Writer John Strysik and Mena Suvari. Also included are three featurettes: Chante’s Inferno, a behind-the-scenes featurette with actual news footage of the incident the film is based on; The Gory Details which highlights the impressive special effects and make-up from the film; and Driving Forces, a video interview with Gordon and Strysik. The Stuck Blu-ray disc will

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Bar Mitzvah Vs. World Cup: Choose A Side

31 July 2008 9:37 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Bernie (Gregg Sulkin), the hero of the Britcom "Sixty Six," is a preteen Job whose lengthy list of miseries - including the failure of his hopelessly square dad's greengrocer business - is topped by his bar mitzvah being scheduled against the final of the 1966 World Cup at Wembley.

Bernie's fantasies of a Big Fat British Bar Mitzvah to rival his older brother's literally go up in smoke even as he places a voodoo curse on his country's World Cup team and dutifully studies with a blind rabbi.

On the plus side is a good cast,

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By LOU LUMENICK

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The New Cult Canon: The Devil's Advocate

23 July 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

"Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. The virtue of the devil is in his loins." And now Camp Month brings us to The Devil's Advocate—or, as I'd like to call it, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The "Hoo-ah" Al Pacino. When Pacino took the Best Actor Oscar for Scent Of A Woman, besting the likes of Denzel Washington in Malcolm X and Stephen Rea in The Crying Game, it felt ironically like one of the great actors of his generation had been lost to us. Gone was the quiet, tortured, soulful introspection of Pacino's work in classics like The Godfather Part II and Serpico. Instead, we received a preening scenery-chewer whose performances were all surface theatricality, with little character underneath. At the time, he seemed to me a husk of his former self, lazily coasting on the authority of...

Scott Tobias

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Stuart Gordon's Stuck On DVD October 7th!

28 June 2008 5:31 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Stuart Gordon's latest film Stuck will hit DVD and Blu-Ray on October 7th via Image Entertainment according to Blu-Ray.com. The post states that Stuck will be presented in 1080p video and accompanied by a 5.1 Dts-hd Master Audio soundtrack. No extras have been announced for the release at this time. But of course, we'll keep you posted. Stuck stars Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea and is loosely based on a true story. Stuart Gordon is the director of such genre classics as Re-animator, From Beyond and The Black Cat. Check out the Red-Band trailer for Stuck below!

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Image Entertainment Gets 'Stuck' on October Date

27 June 2008 11:20 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Image Entertainment has announced that they will bring the direct-to-video horror thriller Stuck to Blu-ray on October 7th, day-and-date with the DVD release, according to Blu-ray.com. The film, which stars Mena Suvari, will be presented in 1080p video and accompanied by a 5.1 Dts-hd Master Audio soundtrack. Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival.

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Stuart Gordon Talks 'Stuck' and Real Life Terror

28 May 2008 12:19 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Last week B-d stringer SpookyDan took a trip to Hollywood where he sat down and chatted with legendary director Stuart Gordon about his latest genre effort, Stuck, which arrives in limited theaters this Friday (May 30). Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival. Stuck is director Stuart Gordons latest genre-thriller that was actually based on a true story. When chatting with the legendary director, we talked a bit about how cold it was of these individuals that he read about in the papers.

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Stuart Gordon on "Stuck"

28 May 2008 7:57 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Aaron Hillis

Though cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon is most revered for his many screen adaptations of horror legend H. P. Lovecraft's work (including "Re-Animator" and "From Beyond"), his latest could be read as the final leg of an angry American trilogy that began with 2003's "King of the Ants" and continued with his 2005 adaptation of David Mamet's "Edmond." In just over an hour and a half, "Stuck" is at once a caustically funny economic drama, a moral thriller and a survival horror flick, all based on a bizarre but true story. Mena Suvari stars as Brandi, a nursing home caretaker who, after partying a little too hard one night, hits recently downsized sad-sack Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car. He doesn't die, but is slowly bleeding to death while half-embedded in her windshield, forcing a panicked Brandi to stupidly decide to leave him in the garage as she

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Suvari + Rea Re-enact Hit + Run Windshield Death Drama

28 May 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea are retelling the gruesome real-life story of a woman who left a homeless man stuck in the windshield of her car after a hit and run accident in a new movie.

In Stuck, Rea plays a character based on Gregory Biggs, who was left to die a painful death in the garage of Texas woman Chante Jawan Mallard, while helplessly lodged in her car's windscreen.

Mallard, who was believed to have been driving while intoxicated by drugs and alcohol at the time of the 2001 incident, was later convicted and sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment for her role in Biggs' death.

The gruesome death, which was also a storyline for a Csi: Crime Scene Investigation episode, is now being played out by Rea andSuvari, and the actress admits the role was among her most difficult.

She says, "It was awkward in a lot of ways. Stephen was tired of being stuck in a windshield and it was intense because it wasn't cozy. We were filming in New Brunswick, and it was freezing.

"Also the real man, he passed away. His name was Gregory Biggs, he was 37 years old. I didn't want to be seen to be having too much of a grand old time because I didn't want to disrespect anyone. It was a tough shoot."

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Opening This Week

26 May 2008 4:41 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

There's something for everyone this week at the multiplex, what with Carrie and company offering something for the ladies with "Sex and the City," the Tae Kwon Do comedy "The Foot Fist Way" being an alternative for the guys, and "Savage Grace"... well, again, let's just say there's something for everyone.

"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"

With everyone from Little League coaches to members of the U.S. Congress weighing in on the issue of performance enhancing drugs in sports, body builder (and former user) Christopher Bell injects his own story into this documentary that explores America's obsession with excellence and what it realistically takes to achieve it. Bell chronicles his own family's history of steroid use as a jumping off point to explore the wider love/hate relationship between professional athletes and performance enhancing drugs in a culture where winning is everything and there are no points for second place.

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Neil Pedley

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Red-band Trailer For Stuart Gordon's 'Stuck'!

16 May 2008 12:19 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

If you read beyond the break you can watch the brand new red-band trailer for Stuart Gordon's Stuck, which hits limited theaters from ThinkFilm on May 30th. Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival.

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New One Sheet For Stuart Gordon's 'Stuck'

25 April 2008 11:19 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today a brand new poster for Stuart Gordon's Stuck (trailer: review) found its way online and can be viewed by reading beyond the break. The film recently screened for critics here in Los Angeles where Bc, among other writers, all seemed to really enjoy it (I guess we can't all agree, can we?) Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival.

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Movie Reviews: 88 Minutes

18 April 2008 10:27 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Al Pacino is back in a Jon Avnet thriller, 88 Minutes, and a few critics agree that the film will satisfy expectations, especially if those expectations aren't very high to begin with. Rafer Guzmán in Newsday calls it "fast, sleazy and serviceable -- in other words, totally watchable -- and has one point in its favor: It never tries to pretend it's a class act." That's about the most favorable comment about the movie that any critic allows. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes it as "execrable," Stephen Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer, as "maddeningly mediocre," and John DeFore in the Austin American Statesman as "salacious, ludicrously plotted trash." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post writes that it "holds you in a state of acute suspense, keeping you wondering until the very last minute whether this is the worst Al Pacino movie ever made." And Liam Lacey writes in the Toronto Globe and Mail that the film "is such a preposterous mess it's a wonder it ever made it to the theater."

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Stephen Rea Gets Struck in New 'Stuck' Pics

14 April 2008 4:55 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Today ThinkFilm provided Bloody-Disgusting with two exclusive stills from Stuart Gordon's Stuck, which hits theaters May 30. In the film, which is based on a true story, Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival.

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Stuart Gordon's 'Stuck' Gets May 30 Release

29 February 2008 11:36 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

ThinkFilm announced today a May 30 release for Stuart Gordon's Stuck (review), which is based on a true story. Brandi (Mena Suvari) hits Tom (Stephen Rea) with her car on her way home from a night of partying. With Tom still alive but lodged through her windshield, she promises to go a hospital but then decides to leave Tom to die in her garage as she realizes that her future is inextricably tied to her victim. Realizing this plan, Tom knows escape is his only chance for survival.

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2008 | 2005 | 2003 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997

19 articles from 2008

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