Taglines: A story about first loves and second chances.
Stuck in Love is an American independent romantic comedy-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 (Jennifer Connelly), their college daughter (Lily Collins), and teenage son (Nat Wolff). The film began a limited theatrical release in the United States on July 5, 2013.
Stuck in Love started shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina in March 2012, primarily in the Wrightsville Beach area. Filming wrapped on April 6, 2012. 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. 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.
About the Story (2013)
Meet the Borgens. William Borgens is an acclaimed author who hasn’t written a word since his ex-wife Erica left him 3 years ago for another man. In between spying on Erica and casual romps with his married neighbour Tricia, Bill is dealing with the complexities of raising his teenage children Samantha and Rusty. Samantha is publishing her first novel and is determined to avoid love at all costs – after all she’s seen what it has done to her parents.
In between hook ups, she meets “nice guy” Lou who will stop at nothing to win her over. Rusty, is an aspiring fantasy writer and Stephen King aficionado, who is on a quest to gain ‘life experiences’. He falls for the beautiful, but troubled Kate and gets his first taste of love and a broken heart. A tale of family, love (lost and found), and how endings can make new beginnings. There are no rewrites in life, only second chances.
Stuck in Love is an American independent romantic comedy-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 (Jennifer Connelly), their college daughter (Collins), and teenage son. The film began a limited theatrical release in the United States on July 5, 2013.
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 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 of Kate’s addictions—Kate goes back for more and goes home with Gus, a guy who was at the party. The Borgens track her down; Bill and Erica find her in Gus’s apartment, asleep in his bedroom after a night of drinking and doing drugs. Kate is loaded into the car. Rusty lifts the blanket covering her body, and realizes she had slept with Gus. 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 story 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 story was put into a magazine.
Stuck in Love (2013)
Directed by: Josh Boone
Starring: Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Greg Kinnear, Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly, Stephen King, Liana Liberato, Katie Garfield, Barbara Weetman
Screenplay by: Josh Boone
Production Design by: John Sanders
Cinematography by: Tim Orr
Film Editing by: Robb Sullivan
Costume Design by: Kari Perkins
Set Decoration by: Gia Grosso
Music by: Mike Mogis, Nate Walcott
MPAA Rating: R for language, teen drug and alcohol use, and some sexual content.
Studio: Millennium Entertainment
Release Date: July 5, 2013
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