Movie a Day Blog finds that the ability to skim through Netflix Streaming can yield mixed rewards. We love the opportunity to discover something new and unheard of as titles fly by, and the urge to just pick a film and watch it can become overwhelming.  That’s how we ended up viewing STUCK IN LOVE (2012), an odd romantic comedy that involves all the members of an extended family in their various messed-up love lives. Perhaps if the writing had been a little sharper and the direction a little peppier, STUCK IN LOVE might have overcome the lopsided nature of its structure and its inability to end scenes in any but the most clichéd manner possible. Unfortunately Josh Boone is in charge of both of those areas, in his first film as a writer-director, and he does not succeed. Greg Kinnear plays a famous novelist who hasn’t written anything in years, and lo and behold, his daughter and his son also prove to be fabulous writers, celebrated and lauded in the film by no less than Stephen King. Kinnear is also separated from wife Jennifer Connelly, to whom daughter Lily Collins won’t speak to, and neither pays much attention to son Nat, who’s having dork problems of his own. All of this doesn’t add up to much because Boone has no perceived ability to make us care about his characters or their various plights. I never believed this group of people as a family, and none of them are given much to work with other than frustrated desire and resulting bathos. STUCK IN LOVE is relatively watchable until its last 15 minutes, when each romantic strike is quickly erased and everyone, I mean absolutely everyone, has a happy ending with their problems completely resolved and a little bow afffixed to the top of their now happy lives. Ugh.