Stuck

(2007) ***½

Brandi Boski, doesn’t that sound like a stripper name? Well anyway, Brandi is working hard as a nursing assistant and is up for a promotion. She goes out with some friends to celebrate by getting drunk. While she is driving home she hits a homeless man. He crashes straight through her windshield and isn’t going anywhere.

She panics and drives straight home stashing her car in the garage with the poor guy, still stuck there and still alive. She leaves him there overnight trying to decide what to do about it and wakes, much to her surprise, to find he is still alive. The poor guy goes through agonizing hours of trying to escape while Brandi attempts going to work and pretending that nothing is wrong. This is inspired by a true story that was very similar to this, some of you may remember it from a few years back.

You really feel bad for this guy. First they show us how he loses his apartment and goes down to unemployment seeking help. He has nowhere to go so he tries sleeping on a park bench. Soon he is being shoved off again by a policeman because the park is closed. All this bad luck then wham! Brandi is not the most likeable character I’ve seen Mena Suvari play but then again, I don’t think we’re supposed to really like her. After all, she’s being a really shitty person here leaving this poor guy in hell. The film has a good flow to it and keeps you captivated within the situation.