The Movie: INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY So reads the opening title for Stuck, a 2007 true crime thriller from cult director Stuart Gordon now receiving a home video release via distributor Image Entertainment. I sometimes cringe when I see that clichéd phrase (or its sister phrase BASED ON REAL EVENTS) at the start of films. Sometimes this expression denotes a cheap made-for-television style fluff piece or an awful low budget horror runaround. Luckily, Stuck falls into neither category. Instead, it's a fairly well-acted and darkly humorous take on a rather scandalous news story a few years back involving a young woman who hit a vagrant and kept driving, with the man still lodged in her windshield. One has to imagine that Gordon, along with fellow screenwriter John Strysik, have taken considerable liberties in their telling of...
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