
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.... (Full plot summary below)
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After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
Leave your thoughts about Gridlock'd.
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanA very underrated film that is also very truthful |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaThe film is often quite funny, deftly walking the thin line between the harrowing and the hilarious. |
| Globe and MailRick GroenThe movie's appeal lies largely in its capacity for surprise, riffing off tired characters and pooped genres to produce, intermittently at least, a fresh new tone. Call it junkie humour. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe film does occasionally lapse into silly slapstick and caricature, but most of the way this is a tough, funny and scary cautionary tale. |
| Salon.comJennie YabroffA surprisingly light-hearted comedy about what happens when two self-imposed exiles from society decide to go straight and look to the system for a little help. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinA smart, well-made buddy film about two junkies desperate to kick the habit. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarry WaltersSo just when Roth and Shakur's clowning closeness nearly transcends the subject, the film throws up a bunch of flashy edits and MTV-esque close-ups that trivialize it. Junkies just can't win. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerA hard-edged, darkly funny satire about two Detroit junkies who discover if they want to go straight, they'll have to climb a Mt. Everest of forms, paperwork, office referrals, waiting rooms, rules and regulations. |
| Los Angeles TimesJack MathewsCast against type as the gentler of two musician junkies trying to burrow through the bureaucracy to enter a rehab clinic in Detroit, Shakur has the relaxed screen presence of a young Wesley Snipes and plays perfectly off the delirious Tim Roth. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordAn ambitious, too ambitious, effort by Curtis Hall that shows talent and a future behind the camera. |