Stick

Burt Reynolds is slick, tough and macho! The story is good and the characters are believable. This is a classic Burt Reynolds' movie when he was at the pinnacle of his career.

I lived in Miami in 1985 when I saw Stick at the theatre. I lived there for many years so this movie is very nostalgic for me. I know all of the scenes in the movie from first hand experience. I've visited most of the places shown in the movie and I lived specifically (for 20 years) in Coconut Grove where Chucky's office is located and where Bunny Eyes fell and missed the pool. I lived a block away from that building and drove past it every day. Now, enough about my nostalgia. This a film depicting the Cocaine Cowboy era of Miami. It's got action, romance, humor, innocence, soft mystery and suspense. It's a portrait of the 80's scene in Miami, the cool, but just a little cheezy culture, of that time. What I like best of Stick is that everything in it is real to the time and culture of 80's Miami drug dealers. The clothing and language is real and very peculiar to that era and Miami in general, today. Even the black magic is true to the genre. Stick (Burt Reynolds) is a calm and cool ex-con just out of prison. Not really a bad guy at all, just a bad decision maker. That's what got in the slam. He meets up with an old prison buddy who gets in trouble along with Stick. He's in denial about the fact that thru the movie he's on a vendetta about his friend - but realizes in the end that his "good heart" is whom he really is.So, watch and enjoy this Miami Vice time-period film and appreciate the qualities of Burt Reynolds as an actor with all his "Burt Reynolds" nuances. Sit back and slip-back into a world known only to those who were there! I'll guarantee you'll feel good at the end.PS. Candice Bergen makes a "hot" financial advisor, too!

Stick and Sharky's Machine are two of my favorite Burt Reynolds movies. I admit that I am a fan and have liked Reynolds since his days as Quint Asper on Gunsmoke. Stick is based on the novel of the same name written by Elmore Leonard. Mr. Leonard also wrote the script for the film. One thing to be sure is that if Elmore Leonard wrote it, it will have some slick dialog. This movie certainly does. Burt Reynolds also directed this film and the beautiful Candice Bergen co-sars as an attorney and Stick's love interest. Burt Reynolds, in my opinion, has always been under-rated as an actor and director. This film tells the tale of an ex-con Ernest "Stick "Stickley, who serves his time for armed robbery and returns to South Florida to begin a new life. He has a 15 year old daughter who lives there and he attempts to renew his relationship with her. Stick quickly gets into trouble when his buddy from prison talks him into a delivery job and gets shot. The story has a few twists and turns, but suffice it to say that Stick avenges his friend's death, saves the day (and his daughter who's been kidnapped by a drug kingpin), and wins the hand of the fair lady. Charles Durning is a close friend of Reynolds and has been in several of his films. He does an excellent job as Chucky, a bumbling drug dealer. Like Sharky's Machine, this is one of those films that I can watch over and over again without growing tired of it. If you like good old fashioned action and a good story, then this is the movie for you. No special effects to speak of, just a good old movie the way they used to make them.

it’s one of his better movies next to “ Sharkeys machine “.it was great to find it in blue-ray. Looks better than my Sharkeys machine DVD that i own.

Action packed

While the new trend toward burn on demand DVD-R has its share of detractors, if that's the only way we're going to get long overdue catalog titles like this, I say keep them coming! The picture here is excellent (much better than poor Burt has been treated over the years on DVD with full frame disasters littering his output) and the bonus here is the sound. The back cover said 2.0 sound, but popping this in the player, it quickly turned out to be a full 5.1 soundtrack, a most unexpected bonus that helped a bit to salve a slight disappointment. The credits, oddly, read like those in the original 1984 version that was never released, with Annie Potts' name listed and Snuff Garrett as music producer. By the time it opened on April 26, 1985, Potts had been edited out and Barry DeVorzon and Joseph Conlan's great electronic score was in place. I have posters from the aborted 1984 release and the final 1985 release and verified that the credits on the back of this DVD were from the original. SO...the occasional optimist in me thought maybe a rare print had been burned to the Vault Series, but no such luck. (Anyone ever seen this elusive version?) For Burt fans, this is a fine product and another success for the series, with the exceptional sound transfer a most welcome surprise.

80’s movie to the max. Burt was classic

FIrstly this is a decent film. Starts off as a worthy follow up to Sharky's Machine..... then the tone changes somewhat and things become more lighthearted. Burt Reynolds said he had turned in a cut of this film and the studio hated it so he reshot/recut the second half of Stick. He was disappointing with the results as was author Elmore Leonard who wrote the book on which this film was based. Now this is a decent film bit in the extended directors cut age of home media I would love to see Reynolds original vision of the film. All of tha being said this movie isn't half bad and a refreshing change of pace for fans of Reynolds who grew tired of the good ol boy films he did with (and without) Hal Needham. If you liked Sharly's Machin give this a try ...and for early Reynolds look at Shamus...

I wasn't sure if this movie would have dated, and although the actors are much younger, it is still a very watchable story in a good setting,

Was actually quite surprised and impressed. It's been a long time since I've watched a Burt Reynolds movie. Compared to other actors.. he is actually a fairly good actor. Good story. Came on time... well packed... happy with purchase.

Another great Burt Reynolds movie to add to my collection. Will be watching this one more than once. Other good actors are in this movie as well. Entertaining.

Item arrived quickly in good packaging, accurate description, at a great price. Hoghly recommened!!

I've seen worst!This 'mostly-a-dud' of a film, though, was, at least, 15 minutes too long.