Stick

Name: Stick
Director: Burt Reynolds
Released: 1985

The Run Down.

Ernest (Stick) Stickley returns from prison, and very soon he gets involved with his old friend in a drug-running deal that goes sour. Hired by a rich investor, he tries to walk the line, but trouble follows him throughout as he tries to collect a debt and make up for lost time with his daughter. Stick also finds a new flame with a lady financial wizard (Kyle) and gets set to enjoy a new life, but Chucky and Nestor, the two hoods that owe him the debt, have other plans for Stick. (IMDB)

Release Year: 1985

Source: Novel and Screenplay ( Stick)

Director: Burt Reynolds

Written by: Elmore Leonard, Joseph Stinson

Production: Universal Studios

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Candace Bergen

Runtime: 109 Minutes

Stick has a dull look and the kind of quick pacing that's abrupt rather than staccato. While the film's setting is unmistakeably southern Florida, the atmosphere is surprisingly antiseptic, without much feeling for the gaudy excesses that make this the perfect environment for Mr. Leonard's fly-by-night businessmen.

— The New York Times

The Book: Stick

After serving time for armed robbery, Ernest "Stick" Stickley is back on the outside and trying to stay legit. But it's tough staying straight in a crooked town—and Miami is a pirate's paradise, where investment fat cats and lowlife drug dealers hold hands and dance. And when a crazed player chooses Stick at random to die for another man's sins, the struggling ex-con is left with no choice but to dive right back into the game. Besides, Stick knows a good thing when he sees it—and a golden opportunity to run a very profitable sweet revenge scam seems much too tasty to pass up.

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