Stuck: The Movie and Fort Worth

I sort of recollect mentioning an oddity which regularly occurs in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, one where if there is even the most remote of a connection between Forth Worth and someone in the news, or on TV, the Star-Telegram will let you know.

Well, today there was an example of this that I would have expected the Star-Telegram to ignore, as it is one of those connections that you really don't want to have associated with your town.

A movie named Stuck opens today. Stuck is about a woman who runs into a homeless man with her car, impaling him in her windshield. She then drives home, parks in her garage, leaves the man bleeding and dying while she goes in the house to make whoopee with her boyfriend.

Stuck is set in Providence, Rhode Island and filmed in Canada.

And now the Fort Worth connection. On October 26, 2001, a woman in my Fort Worth neighborhood named Chante Mallard rammed into a homeless man named Gregory Biggs, impaling his head and torso in her Chevy Cavalier windshield. Mr. Biggs is believed to have lived for 3 days, stuck in the windshield while Ms. Mallard made whoopee with her boyfriend.

The Stuck movie version of this crime leaves out a lot of what Ms. Mallard did. The Star-Telegram's review of this movie made the Fort Worth connection in the first sentence, as in "Loosely based on an incident that occurred several years ago in Fort Worth." They might have added, being more true to the paper's usual form, that Ms. Mallard was born and raised in Fort Worth, in addition to committing her heinous crime in Fort Worth. I don't know where she is serving her jail time.

Go here to read a New York Times article about the 'incident' that Stuck is based on.