Stuck! (2009)

Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose ... See full summary »

Director:

Steve Balderson

Writers:

Frankie Krainz, Steve Balderson (contributing writer),

Stars:

Karen Black, Jane Wiedlin, Mink Stole

Cast

Credited cast:
Karen Black	...	Next Door Neighbor Lady
Jane Wiedlin	...	Princess
Mink Stole	...	Esther
Susan Traylor	...	MeMe
Stacy Cunningham	...	Guard
Jeff Dylan Graham	...	The Greaser
Starina Johnson	...	Daisy
Pleasant Gehman	...	Dutch
Lady Monster	...	Laughing Girl
September Carter	...	Mama
Betti O	...	The Warden

Storyline

Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.

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Plot Keywords:

prison | inmate | jail | punctuation in title | warden | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 October 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Georgia, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$300,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dikenga Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Color:

Black and White

Did You Know?

Goofs

The movie supposedly takes place during the 1950s, but the ignition switch on the Neighbor Lady's car is on the steering column in the style of cars from the 1970s.

User Reviews

An embarrassingly bad failure.

"Are you talking back at me, tampon socket?"

Awful, boring, awful, amateurish, awful, awful, and awful. That pretty much sums up Stuck!

Daisy (played by some woman with a terrible fake southern accent, whose name I certainly didn't bother to look up) walks in on her seriously ill mother plotting to end her own life with a gun, and in an attempt to prevent the suicide, the mother is accidentally shot and killed. A neighbor sees the struggle through her window and misinterprets it, resulting in Daisy getting sent to jail with a sentence of death. I don't really remember what happened after that, probably because this movie is so terrible that it gave me brain damage. 

What's supposed to be a modern homage to the "women in prison" genre, ends up being a mawkish bore that fails to entertain on any level. Stuck! isn't campy fun, and it's not anywhere near the good side of awful. From the acting, writing, and directing, to the incredibly cheap looking digital video it was filmed with, this movie is just a failure. 

Even the titillation that practically is a genre requirement is completely missing, because quite frankly, most of these women make actual prison inmates look like Adriana Lima.  

Skip this. Please.