I popped the movie Stuck into my player and watched it as I did my Christmas cards. Stuck comes from a genre that I don’t care for; but thought I’d give it a try. 

Director Stuart Gordon delivers a simple story that brings light to the dregs of society and the grades of survival potential in individuals.  Stephen Rea aptly plays a laid off warehouse manager named Tom, who is a survivor. His potential is tested when a nurse, played by Mena Suvari, hits Tom, now a homeless man, and drives him home while embedded in her car’s windshield.

For the next 24 hours, the homeless man clings to his life while he is incapacitated in the nurse’s garage, and yet must overcome her selfishness of hiding her crime in hopes of landing a promotion at her job and avoid being arrested.

Stuck won the Silver Raven at the 2008 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film and the Staff Prize at the 2008 San Francisco Indiefest is on the shelves for $27.98 SRP and Blu-ray^TM for $35.98 SRP.

I don’t want to offer in spoilers, but some of the parts of the film would suffice as mild horror. 

There is a Latino boy brought into the film who knows of the homeless man’s plight. The boy and his mother want to help him, but his father says otherwise, basing his decision on the possibility of being deported from the United States.

I think playing off the boy a little bit more at the end would have brought the whole film together nicely. 

Rea is great at depicting a true survivor.