Stuck in Love

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Stuck in Love

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Josh Boone
Produced by Judy Cairo
Written by Josh Boone
Starring Jennifer Connelly
Greg Kinnear
Lily Collins
Logan Lerman
Kristen Bell
Liana Liberato
Nat Wolff
Music by Mike Mogis
Nate Walcott
Cinematography Tim Orr
Editing by Robb Sullivan
Studio Informant Media
MICA Entertainment
Distributed by Millennium Entertainment
Release dates
  • September 9, 2012 (2012-09-09) (Toronto)
July 5, 2013 (United States; limited)
Country United States
Language English
Box office $81,071[1]

Stuck in Love is a 2012 American independent romantic-drama film written and directed by Josh Boone. The film stars Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff and Logan Lerman. It focuses on the complicated relationships between a successful novelist, played by Kinnear, his ex-wife (Connelly), their college daughter (Collins), and teenage son (Wolff).[2] The film began a limited theatrical release in the United States on July 5, 2013.

Plot

Novelist Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear) has been struggling to keep it together after his wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly) left him for a younger man three years ago. Instead of working on a new book, he obsesses about his ex, spies on her and her new husband while pretending to be jogging, and insists that their sixteen-year-old son, Rusty (Nat Wolff), set a place at the Thanksgiving table for Erica every year, even though she never comes.

This Thanksgiving, their 19-year-old daughter Sam (Lily Collins) comes home from college with momentous news: her first novel has been accepted for publication. Bill is thrilled, since he has been raising his children to be writers since birth, and annoyed, since she wrote the book without any help from him. When he suggests that Sam share her good news with Erica, she balks, refusing to have anything to do with the woman she believes betrayed her father.

Deeply wounded by her mother's departure, Sam has constructed a wall between love and her. She pursues only one-night stands and uncommitted hookups to protect herself from being hurt. When her classmate Lou (Logan Lerman) tries to initiate a real relationship with her, she ridicules him and leaves before she has to reveal that he has touched her. When Lou stops coming to the writing seminar they both attend, Sam tracks him down and follows him to the house where his mother is dying. Not even cynical Sam can resist Lou's gallantry in the face of tragedy.

Meanwhile, Rusty is just the kind of guy his sister abhors — romantic, needy and hoping to rescue a damsel in distress. He gets his chance when beautiful Kate (Liana Liberato), the secret crush he dedicates his poetry to, has a fight with her abusive boyfriend; he steps in. Even though Kate has drug addictions, Rusty is so blinded by love that he can't see how troubled she is.

When Erica attends a launch event for Sam's book, she is devastated by her daughter’s rejection. As the Borgens family reopens old wounds and inflicts some new ones, Kate spins out of control. When Sam gives Kate champagne — even though she's underage and unaware of Kate's addictions — Kate goes back for more and is taken by a guy at the party. The Borgens track her down; Bill and Erica find her in the home, hiding and asleep in the bedroom of the guy that took her. Kate is loaded into the car. Rusty lifts the blanket covering her body, and it is presumed he realizes she has been raped. He cries over her. Distraught, Rusty turns to alcohol and comes home drunk almost every night. Rusty encounters Kate's ex- boyfriend one day in a convenience store. Rusty is badly injured in a fight with Kate's ex. In the background narration, Kate writes Rusty a letter telling him how sorry she is and that she's in rehab. She says she wishes that one day, she could be worthy of somebody like him. Bill, worried about Rusty, grounds him. Rusty writes a book and finds that it's helped him heal the wounds. Later, he gets a call from Stephen King, who is an author he highly admires. Rusty's new book was put into a magazine.

Bill reveals to Sam that when she was a baby, he left Erica and she waited six months for him. When he came back, she accepted him. He promised that if she ever left him, he'd give her a second chance. Lou's mother dies, and Sam realizes how much her mother means to her. She makes up with Erica. Erica comes back that Thanksgiving, where Lou has joined them for dinner.

Cast

Production

Stuck in Love started shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina in March 2012, primarily in the Wrightsville Beach area.[3] Filming wrapped on April 6, 2012.[4]

On March 6, 2012, it was announced that Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Liana Liberato, Nat Wolff and Kristen Bell had joined the cast. It was also announced that the film would feature a cameo from Stephen King, as well as actors Rusty Joiner and Patrick Schwarzenegger in supporting roles.[5] In November, the working title of the movie, Writers, was changed to Stuck in Love. In Australia and New Zealand it was released under the title A Place For Me and distributed by Becker Film Group.[6]

Soundtrack

Varèse Sarabande released the Stuck in Love – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on May 21 and on CD and vinyl June 11, 2013. The soundtrack features an original score by Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott (from Bright Eyes), and new songs "At Your Door" (by Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott featuring Big Harp), "You Are Your Mother's Child" (by Conor Oberst) and "Somersaults in Spring" (by Friends of Gemini: Corina Figueroa Escamilla, Nathaniel Walcott and Mike Mogis). Complete song track listing:

  1. "Home" • Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
  2. "At Your Door" • Nathaniel Walcott and Mike Mogis featuring Big Harp
  3. "You Are Your Mother's Child" • Conor Oberst
  4. "American Man" • Rio Bravo
  5. "Polkadot" • Like Pioneers
  6. "Will You Be by Me" • Wallpaper Airplanes
  7. "I Won't Love You Any Less" • Nat & Alex Wolff
  8. "Between the Bars" • Elliott Smith
  9. "The Calendar Hung Itself..." • Bright Eyes
  10. "A Mountain, a Peak" • Bill Ricchini
  11. "Somersaults in Spring" • Friends of Gemini

References

  1. ↑ "Stuck in Love (2013)". Box Office Mojo. 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-08-31. 
  2. ↑ Kilday, Gregg (January 26, 2012). "Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly to Star in 'Writers'". Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Royal, Judy (February 5, 2012). "Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly headed to Wilmington". Star News Online. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Foss, Cassie (April 5, 2012). "As 'Writers' wraps, actors praise all involved". Star News Online. Archived from the original on April 8, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Cast set for 'Writers'". Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2012. 
  6. ↑ "Becker Film Group". Becker Film Group. Retrieved 2013-08-31. 

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