Stuck in Love (2013)
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Critics Consensus: It struggles to enliven its uneven script, but Stuck in Love boasts enough winning performances from its solid veteran cast to offer an appealing diversion for rom-com enthusiasts.
Critics Consensus: It struggles to enliven its uneven script, but Stuck in Love boasts enough winning performances from its solid veteran cast to offer an appealing diversion for rom-com enthusiasts.
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Three years past his divorce, veteran novelist Bill Borgens (Academy Award (R) nominee Greg Kinnear) can't stop obsessing over, let alone spying on, his ex-wife Erica (Academy Award (R) winner Jennifer Connelly), who ignominiously left him for another man. Even as his neighbor-with-benefits, Tricia (Kristen Bell) tries to push him back into the dating pool, he remains blind to anyone else's charms. Meanwhile, his fiercely independent collegiate daughter Samantha (Lily Collins) is publishing her … More- Rating:
- R (for language, teen drug and alcohol use, and some sexual content)
- Genre:
- Drama , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Josh Boone
- Written By:
- Josh Boone
- In Theaters:
- Jul 5, 2013 Limited
- On DVD:
- Oct 8, 2013
- US Box Office:
- $79.0k
Cast
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Greg Kinnear
as Bill Borgens -
Jennifer Connelly
as Erica -
Lily Collins
as Samantha Borgens -
Nat Wolff
as Rusty Borgens -
Kristen Bell
as Tricia -
Logan Lerman
as Louis
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Perfectly adequate airplane reading.
The story, while unsurprising, is also quietly satisfying. Everyone comes to accept some hard truths about themselves.
Cliched literary trappings come together in "Stuck in Love," but the final product feels more like a footnote than a finished work.
Although "Stuck in Love" is an indie film, it hews slavishly to Hollywood formulas right down to its comfy Thanksgiving Day ending. It's all so easy, isn't it?
Just like most romantic comedies (though this is more of a "rom-dram"), Stuck In Love. believes nothing is worthier than refusing to give up after you've been rebuffed in no uncertain terms.
Worthwhile for its fine performances, including the best work that Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly have done in quite a while.
Highlighted by standout performances by Greg Kinnear and Lily Collins, this film has it all, some humor, some tears, and a lot of truth.
A little heavy-handed at times, "Stuck in Love" is saved from the maudlin pile by its stellar cast.
[VIDEO ESSAY] A well blended cocktail of familial connections, aspirations, and separations, "Stuck in Love" is a complex romantic comedy that keeps on giving even when you think it has run its course.
[Boone's] semiautobiographical film is a confident, at times wonderfully nuanced, and often well-paced rewrite of his own parents' divorce.
Familiar tale of indie-suburban angst.
Like many films paying lip service to the world of writing and publishing, Stuck in Love is in a big hurry to get to the good parts
Three writers in one family explore the different shades of love.
Set in a world of resplendent beach homes and scrubbed-clean towns, populated by genetically blessed people who wouldn't know a real concern if it smacked them in the face.
But all too soon, Boone's questionable taste level and constant, very self-conscious but none-too-deep emphasis on the what, how and why of Writers becomes oppressive and extremely precious.
Immensely likable but a little too tidy in its emotional payoff, the movie benefits from its charming, empathetic ensemble.
Nicely acted, but a bit all over the place
Starts sit-comish but as it becomes more complex it takes on a somewhat literary tone.
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