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By Maggie Martin Jan 14, 2013
Now Streaming: Stuck in Love
Sometimes movies come along and they change you, as cliché as that sounds. I described this movie to my friend as “filling a hole in my chest that I didn’t know existed”. It had the strangest small details that were so relatable to my life currently that I thought it was written just with me in mind. I’m talking about Stuck in Love, written and directed by Josh Boone.
This movie stars some of my favorites, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff—if I could dream cast of a movie of my life it would include all of them. Stuck in Love tells the story of the Borgens family of writers who, instead of doing chores, have been paid to hone their writing craft in their journals their whole lives.
Samantha Borgens (Lily Collins) announces at dinner that her first novel is being published at the age of 19 and that starts the movie-long conversation on the ideas of love and life. Sam is revered for “living life” by her father (Greg Kinnear), her brother Rusty (Nat Wolff) calls her promiscuous. After their father tells Rusty that he should be living more, he starts his pursuit for the unattainable Kate. The first and most iconic thing he says about her? “I remember that it hurt. Looking at her hurt.”
Bill Borgens isn’t exactly living either. Even though his wife left two years ago he still sets the table for her as if she is coming back. Samantha channels her apathy for love fueled by her parents’ falling out into her novel and only decides to hook up with boys whose IQ is significantly lower than hers. Until she meets Louis (Logan Lerman).
They all learn about love and life together with beautiful, beautiful writing along the way and I was captured the entire time. I played through the entire credits at the end because I didn’t want it to end.
Did I mention that Josh Boone is directing The Fault in Our Stars? Only another confirmation that this film is wonderful.
Don’t take my word for it. Stuck in Love is streaming now on Netflix and I don’t think I’ve ever recommended something so highly.
