

A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Acting
Chris Pine's billionaire lunatic—career-best weirdo mode.
Direction
Carnahan's cocaine-rush pacing, one manic night structure.
Editing
Breakneck cuts that mirror Stretch's spiraling sanity.

Director
Joe Carnahan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Universal dumped this straight to VOD despite Carnahan's strong track record—Pine's unhinged performance became a Reddit discovery years later.
Carnahan shot this in 20 days for $5 million; the fluorescent-soaked LA is his love letter to Collateral and After Hours.