Stuck is a movie that I was fortunate enough not to read about before I watched it. It's really good. If you would like the same experience, GO WATCH IT before reading this.
Stuck is a movie, prefaced with "based on true events", about a Nurse, who while off-the-clock, driving on Ecstacy and probably drunk, hits a homeless man with her car. The man has both of his legs broken and is sent through her windshield, where his head drips blood on the passenger seat. On her way home, he slowly awakes and asks her for help. When she arrives home, where she's meeting her boyfriend(who's a drug dealer); she explains it to him- But she fails to mention that the man is still in her windshield, and alive. The man assures her that if she hit a homeless man and there were no witnesses, then they'll fix the car and everything will be alright.
This is where the black comedy/OMG-fest begins. The woman tries everything to not get caught for the crime, and as such gets no medical attention for the man. She eventually grows to deny that it was her fault at all, and becomes angry enough to assault the man. She enlists the help of her boyfriend, who, in an attempt to act "hard", acts as if he knows exactly what to do. It becomes clear that he doesn't, and his silky-smooth gangster talk completely dissipates, which is hilarious. After many trials and tribulations for the homeless man trying to save himself, They decide that the boyfriend will murder the man and leave his body in the park. He hesitates, both with a pillow and a gun, and instead the homeless man has a pen ready, stabs him in the eye, and drives it in as far as it will go.
The boyfriend dies, and the homeless man tries to escape, but then the nurse comes back in. She attempts to set the whole place on fire, to tell the police a very unlikely story, but then the homeless man drives the car into her shins, assumedly breaking her legs also, and gives a short monologue when she asks "help me". She tries to shoot him, and the friction from the bullet lights the garage on fire. The neighbors come, rescue the homeless man, and one can assume he survives to tell about it.
I left out alot of the description because I want to address the "based on true events" part of it. After watching the movie and feeling my life affirmed and butterflies in my stomach for human perseverance, I read about the actual story. It goes as such: A drunk and high nurse in texas hit a homeless man, decide to leave him to die and deal with it later, and he died the next morning. Her boyfriend and another man left the man in the park, and they attempted to burn her car to lose the evidence. She was only a suspect in the crime 4 months later, when she was bragging at a party about how she "Hit a white man" and got away with it. She was caught and sentenced to 50 years in prison. She's eligible for parole in 2027.
Though the movie is good in its own right, It's a bit upsetting knowing that the very incompetent, insensitive characters in the movie were even more incompetent and insensitive in real life. Instead of sympathetic characters that make rash decisions in the heat of the moment, The real life criminals involved were entirely cold, even bragging later on. The whole situation is sad, but it's also good that the movie alerted me to the real story- wherein the woman got what she deserved.
Overall, a worthwhile watch, but the movie is more like "Half a real story, then what you want to see". Which is satisfying, but leaves something to be desired.
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