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The film starts with Detectives Vic Manning (Dave Bautista) and Sara Morris (Karen Gillan) arriving at a hotel to catch notorious drug lord Oka Teijo (Iko Uwais). Teijo gets the drop on them and starts to fight Vic before running away. The detectives chase Teijo out of the hotel and into the streets. Morris gets close enough to catch Teijo, but as they fight for her gun, Teijo ends up shooting Morris in the abdomen. The crook gets away as Vic rushes to his partner’s side to save her, but she soon dies.
Six months later, we meet Stu (Kumail Nanjiani), who works at a sporting goods store while taking a side job as an Uber driver. He is forced to give a ride to his obnoxious boss Richie Sandusky (Jimmy Tatro), who runs his father’s store and also gives him the unwanted nickname “Stuber”. Stu is also investing in opening a spin class gym with his college friend Becca (Betty Gilpin), with whom he is in love. However, she is dating a superstar basketball player, and Stu is none too pleased. He also really needs to maintain a rating above four stars, or he loses the Uber gig, and typically, his rides do not go over well.
Vic has been obsessing over catching Teijo and avenging Morris. Captain Angie McHenry (Mira Sorvino) tells Vic to let it go now that the case against Teijo is being bumped up to the feds. Vic later goes to get Lasik eye surgery before meeting with his daughter Nicole (Natalie Morales). She invites him to her art gallery later that night, which he promises to attend even though he can’t see anything. Nicole installs the Uber app on his phone to help him out.
Vic later gets a call from his informant, Leon (Amin Joseph), who frantically tells Vic about a heroin drop with Teijo happening later that night. Vic jumps at the chance to get in on the case, and he heads to meet with Leon, but because he can’t see, he drives all over the place, knocks things over, and finally drives into a construction hole. He then has no choice but to call for an Uber. Stu is that Uber driver, and he goes to pick Vic up and take him to Koreatown to meet with Leon.
Stuber is a 2019 American action comedy film directed by Michael Dowse and written by Tripper Clancy. It stars Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino and Karen Gillan, and follows an Uber driver who unwillingly becomes part of a police officer’s arrest operation.
The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 13, 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on July 12, 2019. It will be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the 20th Century Fox label, making it the first R-rated film to be distributed by Disney since The Fifth Estate (2013), under the Touchstone Pictures label.
Stuber (2019)
Directed by: Michael Dowse
Starring: Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino, Karen Gillan, Melody Peng, Scott Lawrence, Joshua Mikel, Julia Vasi
Screenplay by: Tripper Clancy
Production Design by: Naaman Marshall
Cinematography by: Bobby Shore
Film Editing by: Jonathan Schwartz
Costume Design by: Leigh Leverett
Set Decoration by: Karen Frick
Art Direction by: Andi Crumbley
Music by: Joseph Trapanese
MPAA Rating: R for violence and language throughout, some sexual references and brief graphic nudity.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: July 12, 2019
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