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2012 – Stuck in Love
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Directed by: Josh Boone Written by: Josh Boone Produced by: Judy Cairo Production year: 2012 Original release: July 5, 2013 (USA) Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes Other cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly Misc: IMDB | Amazon | iTunes |
A successful writer (Greg Kinnear) tries to reconnect with his two children (Lily Collins, Nat Wolff) after his divorce.
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Trivia
- Samantha (Lily Collins) wrote Under the pink which is in fact the title of Tori Amos second album.
- Early in the movie, Erica (Jennifer Connelly) is reading Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, which is about the death of Didion’s daughter. At that point in the movie, Erica has completely lost Sam (Lily Collins), her daughter.
- Rusty’s story that Samantha sends to Stephen King is the repeated writings of the lyrics of the Beatles song ‘I’ve just seen a face’. In the movie, Rusty says that this song plays on his head every time he sees Kate. Also the story starts with Rusty’s opening lines: ‘Looking at her hurts’
- It was originally called ‘Writers’.
- Rusty’s story that Samantha sends to Stephen King is the repeated writings of the lyrics of the Beatles song ‘I’ve just seen a face’. In the movie, Rusty says that this song plays on his head every time he sees Kate. Also the story starts with Rusty’s opening lines: ‘I remember that it hurt. Looking at her hurt’
- Well-known literary writers who are mentioned or whose books characters are shown reading include Flannery O’Connor, Richard Ford, Joan Didion, Stephen King, and Raymond Carver.
- When Sam and Bill are sitting down outside, Bill asks, “How’s Lou?,” and Sam responds, “Who’s Lou?,” even though she is reading an Ed Brubaker comic book, which Lou says that he loves earlier on.
- The book Sam is reading when she gets the call from Lou is the book her dad says she stole from his library, “The World of Apples”.
- The movie starts and ends with the same song; Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
- Stuck in Love was written and directed by Josh Boone. In the movie the character Louis (Logan Lerman) says that The Stand is his favorite (Stephen King) book. After The Fault In Our Stars Josh Boone is working on a screen adaption of Stephen King’s The Stand.
Character Quotes
- Samantha Borgens: If love is setting a place at the table for someone who is never coming home, I think I’ll pass.
- Samantha Borgens: You make me feel less cynical.
- Samantha Borgens: There are two kinds of people in this world: hopeless romantics and realists.
Rusty Borgens: Right.
Samantha Borgens: A realist just sees that face and packs it in with every other pretty girl they’ve ever seen before. The hopeless romantic becomes convinced that God put them on Earth to be with that one person. But there is no God and life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is. Guys who get laid a lot are realists. You should be listening. - Samantha Borgens: Just avoid love at all costs. That’s my motto.
- Samantha Borgens: I don’t wanna get hurt.
Lou: I’m not gonna hurt you.