Synopsis
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
Stuck
2017 Directed by Michael Berry
Cast
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Premiere
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USA
Newport Beach Film Festival
Theatrical limited
19 Apr 2019
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USAPG-13
Theatrical
29 Aug 2019
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South Korea
Releases by Country
South Korea
29 Aug 2019
- Theatrical
USA
23 Apr 2017
- Premiere Newport Beach Film Festival
19 Apr 2019
- Theatrical limitedPG-13
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we live in a society: the musical
also 🗣 it’s never okay to stalk someone or take pictures of them without their consent what the fuck!!!
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Es el musical más raro que he visto en muchisimo tiempo, de verdad que es extraño ver a Giancarlo Esposito, Omar Chaparro (?) y Arden Cho cantando sobre lo que termina siendo vivir en una sociedad.
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A “why can’t we all just get along” narrative is going to be tough sledding in 2019, and a lot of good intentions can’t quite get past over-simplified conflicts and resolutions. Writer/director Michael Berry adapts Riley Thomas’ musical play, set in a New York City subway where six passengers are stuck together during an extended delay. They are, not surprisingly, demographically diverse—blue-collar Latino Ramón (Omar Chaparro), homeless philosopher Lloyd (Giancarlo Esposito), white lady Sue (Amy Madigan), Asian-American dancer Alicia (Arden Cho), African-American Eve (Ashanti) and white guy Caleb (Gerard Canonico)—and also not surprisingly, they all begin by making stereotypical assumptions about one another in the most confrontational possible terms. But while there are a few decent songs in which they…
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This movie tried to tackle every social issue and did all of them badly. The star is for Giancarlo Esposito's voice and the two songs I liked
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“her wheelchair could kick batmobiles ass” is a lyric in a song that I had to hear. something about this was just definitely off
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"Starlight Express", as written by Jonathon Larson! Eh, roll your eyes all you want, but urban musical numbers are hardly the most bizarre and obnoxious thing that can happen in a New York subway. Tensions can nary get higher for these six people, who find themselves "stuck" in the rear car of an NYC subway that has just made an unscheduled stop in the tunnel. They only have to wait an hour for police activity to run its course, but this improbably well-rounded melting pot of age, racial, ethnic and class diversity, headed by Gus Fring, may not make it that long without this turning into the usual premise of an ensemble film set on a train. For all the…
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Yo venía a ver un musical con Omar Chaparro y acabé siendo aleccionado sobre aborto, siendo víctima de mansplanning, siendo testigo de un caso de acoso que no es acoso y padeciendo de white people issues.
Lo que se antojaba como una formula interesante, cae en lecciones forzadas y una extraña interacción forzada entre personajes que a veces raya en la comedia involuntaria.
Se queda en la "buena idea" pero la ejecución es de novela. Lo único que sobresale dentro de esta cinta de corte independiente es como Esposito disfruta su papel.
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Pure gritty urban joy, all marvelous, touching songs about grief, sacrifice, mistrust, misunderstanding, and other intimate perils. An exuberant marvel.
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Tried to be about everything. Which made it really about nothing. Way too agenda driven.
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This came up in my video queue, so (being a fan of musicals) I figured I'd give it a try (Since it also features the great Giancarlo Esposito.)
It's a "slice of life" story in the vein of "Rent", telling in song the story of a handful of strangers trapped on the subway.
A pleasant enough diversion: the acting is passable, the choreography is fair, the characters have some bit of depth, and the songs are pleasing to the ear.
BUT there's no "Let it Go" or "One Song Glory" in this film: there's no character or song that rises up off the screen to thrill or overwhelm the viewer as the best musicals do. And that is a true shame, given that they had the power and presence and talent of both Ashanti and Giancarlo Esposito.