STUCK
Dir Stuart Gordon w/ Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea. 94 min. Sep 10, 11:59am, Ryerson; Sep 12, 4pm, Scotiabank 4.
A fictionalized take on the strange but true tale of a Texan woman who hit a homeless man with her car and let him slowly die while stuck in her windshield, this New Brunswick-shot cheapie by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) is a seedy little black comedy. Mena Suvari plays the driver, a nursing-home worker who's more dim than necessarily malevolent. Either way, it's bad news for Stephen Rea as the guy who ends up impaled on a windshield wiper. Despite the obvious limitations of the premise, Gordon and his actors squeeze out all the sick, queasy laughs they can. JA
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