Film review: Stuck in Love

Clichés about love and generational conflict are regurgitated in Josh Boone's directorial debut, starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly.

Stuck in Love follows the dynamics of a nuclear family of novelists as they try to cope with a divorce. Informant Media

Stuck in Love

Director: Josh Boone

Starring: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff

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Clichés about love and generational conflict are regurgitated, as a nuclear family of novelists try to cope with divorce. The successful author Bill (Greg Kinnear) has had a couple of years to lament his former wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly) walking out the door, giving him plenty of time to grow a beard – Hollywood’s surest sign of an emotional breakdown. The teenage daughter Samantha (Lily Collins) acts out, despite landing a cool book deal. The youngest child, Rusty (Nat Wolff), a Stephen King fan, wants everyone to just take a chill pill, except for his classmate Kate (Liana Liberato), who is central to a misguided drugs subplot. Alas, why couldn’t one of these fab authors have helped the first-time writer and director Josh Boone pen some decent dialogue?

* Kaleem Aftab

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