Stuck in Love
Short description
Stuck in Love follows the Borgens family over the course of a year, centering on William Borgens, a successful novelist whose life stalled after his divorce. He still lives in the family's beachfront house with his teenage son Rusty, while his ex-wife Erica has moved on with a younger man. William cannot let go of Erica, and that preoccupation crowds out the work he should be doing. His children are finding their own paths: his college-age daughter Samantha has just published her first novel, which unsettles him, and Rusty, a gifted writer who does not fit in at high school, is trying to establish himself in his father's shadow. The story moves between each of them as they deal with love and its complications.
Josh Boone wrote and directed the film, his first as director; the facts list it ahead of The Fault in Our Stars, The New Mutants, Regretting You and Fake Skating. Judy Cairo produced. Greg Kinnear plays William, with Jennifer Connelly as Erica, Lily Collins as Samantha, Nat Wolff as Rusty, and Liana Liberato and Logan Lerman in supporting roles.
Released in 2013 and running 97 minutes, the film drew a 5.9 out of 10 critics' rating from 42 reviews, lower than its audience scores of 7.2 on IMDb from around 95,000 votes and 7.4 on TMDB.
What's left behind the scenes
- The following well-known writers are mentioned in the film (or their books are read by the characters) — Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), Richard Ford (1944), Joan Didion (1934), Stephen King (1947), and Raymond Carver (1938-1988).
- Samantha, played by Lily Collins, wrote a paper titled Under the Pink — the name of Tori Amos's 1994 album.
- The film was initially intended to be titled 'Writers'.
- The story Rusty sends to Stephen King is an adaptation of the lyrics to “I've Just Seen a Face” (The Beatles, 1965). Rusty claims that he remembers this song every time he sees Kate. The story itself begins with Rusty saying: “I remember it hurting. It hurt to look at her.”
- Rusty, played by Nat Wolff, gives Kate, played by Liana Liberato, a book. It’s a 25th-anniversary edition of Stephen King’s novel “It” (1986). Rusty is a big fan of King’s work.
- When Bill asks Sam, “How’s Louie doing?”, she replies, “What Louie?”. She is, at that moment, reading Ed Brubaker comics, which Louie adores (as he mentions in one of the earlier scenes of the film).
- At the beginning of the film, Erika, played by Jennifer Connelly, is reading “Blue Nights” (2011) by Joan Didion, a memoir about the author’s daughter’s death. By this point, Erika has already lost her own daughter, Sam, played by Lily Collins.
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