STUCK

STUCK

a character-driven crime thriller set in the working-class city of San Leandro, California — a place and environment rarely shown on screen with this level of intimacy, texture, and emotional specificity.

The film follows a group of lifelong friends who become trapped working for a violent crime boss after a robbery spirals out of control. As the jobs escalate and pressure closes in, loyalty begins to fracture and survival slowly replaces brotherhood.

Grounded in the realism and tension of films like The Town, Heat, and A Most Violent Year, the project focuses less on spectacle and more on the emotional weight of debt, masculinity, loyalty, and the systems people inherit long before they realize they’re trapped inside them.

Born and raised in San Leandro, this project is deeply personal to me. The locations, energy, conversations, pressure, and emotional dynamics inside the story come directly from lived observation and experience growing up in the Bay Area.

The screenplay has been completed, table reads have already been conducted, and development continues through casting, visual development, and production planning.

At its core, STUCK is about people trying to outrun the lives they built for themselves — and realizing too late that survival and escape are rarely the same thing.