Tonight for our nightly dinner and a show, the teens and I watched the most bad-ass movie I have seen in a long time, Stuck
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It stars 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.
I saw this movie under new releases on Netflix, and after reading the above synopsis, I decided it might be worth the viewing.
Oh how right I was!
This movie is dark, it's violent, but hysterically funny at the same time.
The teens and I laughed out loud multiple times while watching it, and we simply couldn't believe how far Brandi was willing to go to try and get that job promotion.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, including a dying man in her car's windshield, was going to screw up her plans to get ahead at work for a supervisor who constantly asked too much of her, and the other employees as well.
The supervisor held the promotion over her head in such a twisted way, that Brandi seemed to have no choice but to keep the dying man in her car, in her garage, at any and all costs.
If you like deeply twisted movies, dark comedies, you have to see this movie.
It has become one of my favorite movies of 2008 after just 1 viewing.
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It stars 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.
I saw this movie under new releases on Netflix, and after reading the above synopsis, I decided it might be worth the viewing.
Oh how right I was!
This movie is dark, it's violent, but hysterically funny at the same time.
The teens and I laughed out loud multiple times while watching it, and we simply couldn't believe how far Brandi was willing to go to try and get that job promotion.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, including a dying man in her car's windshield, was going to screw up her plans to get ahead at work for a supervisor who constantly asked too much of her, and the other employees as well.
The supervisor held the promotion over her head in such a twisted way, that Brandi seemed to have no choice but to keep the dying man in her car, in her garage, at any and all costs.
If you like deeply twisted movies, dark comedies, you have to see this movie.
It has become one of my favorite movies of 2008 after just 1 viewing.
