Stick (film)
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Stick is a 1985 crime film directed by and starring Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...

, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...

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Plot

Ernest "Stick" Stickley, a former car thief, has just been released from prison. He meets up with an old friend, Rainy, whose "quick stop" near the Florida Everglades before they go home is an illegal drug deal that goes sour. With his friend dead, Stick needs to hide out for a while to elude the killers (who must eliminate him as a witness).

While lying low, Stick finds himself in the right place at the right time when he helps a wealthy eccentric named Barry get into his locked car. Hired as a driver, he has a comfortable home with a stable job and tries to make up for lost time with Katie, his teen-age daughter. He also finds a new flame in Kyle, a financial consultant who acts as a business adviser for Barry, who must decide what of Stick can be salvaged.

Before he can move on, however, Stick confronts drug dealer Chucky to demand the money owed to his murdered friend. Chucky refuses and sends albino hit-man Mokey after the ex-con. Stick can't get on with his new life without cleaning up old business first. He becomes the target of Mokey as well as the cartel that employs Chucky, led by the voodoo-obsessed Nestor.

A three-way confrontation on a high-rise balcony ends in Chucky's and Mokey's deaths. Stick must then rely on his quick wit and fists to deal with his final enemy, Nestor, who has kidnapped Stick's daughter.

Cast

  • Burt Reynolds
    Burt Reynolds
    Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...

     as Stick
  • Candice Bergen
    Candice Bergen
    Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model.She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown , for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal...

     as Kyle
  • Charles Durning
    Charles Durning
    Charles Durning is an American actor. With appearances in over 100 films, Durning's memorable roles include police officers in the Oscar-winning The Sting and crime drama Dog Day Afternoon , along with the comedies Tootsie, To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the last two...

     as Chucky
  • George Segal
    George Segal
    George Segal is an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:George Segal, Jr. was born in 1934 Great Neck, Long Island, New York, the son of Fannie Blanche and George Segal, Sr. He was educated at George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown, Bucks County,...

     as Barry
  • Jose Perez as Rainy
  • Richard Lawson as Cornell
  • Castulo Guerra as Nestor
  • Dar Robinson
    Dar Robinson
    Dar Allen Robinson was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." He invented the decelerator which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally...

     as Mokey
  • Tricia Leigh Fisher as Katie
  • Sachi Parker
    Sachi Parker
    Sachiko Parker is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles to actress Shirley MacLaine and businessman Steve Parker, and has numerous film and television credits, recently starring in the 2009 Japanese film The Witch of the West is Dead, which showed at the Palm Springs International Film...

     as Bobbi
  • Jorge Gil as Chucky's Hood
  • Armand Grossman Chucky's Hood
  • Ignacio Menocal as Nestor's Hood
  • Jesus Menocal as Nestor's Hood
  • David Cadiente as Nestor's Hood (as Dave Cadiente)
  • Gary Carlos Cervantes as Nestor's Hood (as Carlos Cervantes)
  • Richard L. Duran as Nestor's Hood
  • Thomas Rosales, Jr.
    Thomas Rosales, Jr.
    Thomas Rosales, Jr. is an American film extra and stunt man who has appeared in more than one hundred and fifty movies. His first known appearance as a stuntman was in Battle for the Planet of the Apes in 1973....

     as Nestor's Hood
  • Bert Rosario as Bodega Owner

Production

Famed stuntman Dar Robinson
Dar Robinson
Dar Allen Robinson was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." He invented the decelerator which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally...

 played the albino hit-man, Mokey. His character's death scene, falling from the side of a building while firing a gun, is considered one of the better stunts in Hollywood history. It uses Robinson's invention, a decelerator, so cameras could film from above without a visible airbag below (a scattering crowd of people below can also be seen in this shot). This was Robinson's first and last acting break (as opposed to pure stunt work), as he was fatally injured while filming a stunt the following year in 1986 for the film Million Dollar Mystery
Million Dollar Mystery
Million Dollar Mystery is a 1987 American film released with a promotional tie-in for Glad-Lock brand bags. While performing a routine stunt for this film, legendary stuntman Dar Robinson lost his life on November 21, 1986...

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