Mr. Stitch

TV Movie
1995
PG-13
1h 34m

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Doctor Rue Wakeman (Rutger Hauer) and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature, Lazarus (Wil Wheaton), reads a lot of books and learns al... Read allDoctor Rue Wakeman (Rutger Hauer) and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature, Lazarus (Wil Wheaton), reads a lot of books and learns all about the humans. But when he meets fascinating Doctor Elizabeth English (Nia Peeples), ... Read allDoctor Rue Wakeman (Rutger Hauer) and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature, Lazarus (Wil Wheaton), reads a lot of books and learns all about the humans. But when he meets fascinating Doctor Elizabeth English (Nia Peeples), his life changes, and he decides to escape from the laboratory.

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wolverin-3

Excellent movie, at least not a violent one

I think the movie was excellent, it was not violent for starters compared to other recent movies.

Wheaton plays the part of a man who has been 'stitched' together like humpty dumpty, well from the remains of many dead persons. The problem starts when he starts remembering how they died and lots of other memories they had. Nia Peeples is great in the movie, as is Wheaton.

The movie reminds us, not to play with nature, not to "play God" with life. What God creates we shouldn't manipulate for our own egoistical interest such as creating super-soldiers which was what the movie was about.

Great sci-fi movie, unfortunately it was shown at 1.30am last night on tv!

dunkel_berg25

The worst TV movie I've ever seen

I rented this TV movie cause it had Rutger Hauer in it. I never imagined I was renting something soooo bad. The amount of flaws this movie has wouldn't fit on a grocery list. I felt sorry for Hauer, seeing him so fat and old, starring on a movie that was so bad. I think he ran away from making this movie, after seeing how bad it was turning out to be(we can only see Hauer on the first minutes of film, afterwards, he simply disappear). I know this film has had its amount of bad critics, but it is just that bad. A 0.5 out of 10.

TToadvine

Who gave the greenlight on this?

How they were able to attain funding to produce this..uh..movie, has to be more of a feat than the production itself.

I'm so glad to see Wil Wheaton didn't leave Star Trek: The Next Generation without such promising projects awaiting him.

Wheaton plays an androgenous, Palamino-skinned Frankenstein's Monster with amnesia, who after reading one of several books, the Bible, names himself Lazarus.

With huge vacant lab rooms, filmed using more lens gauze than Penthouse, an eventual laboratory breakout, and a crazy road trip(by the way, when did he take the 'Mad Max' driving course), 'Stitch' can only leave you asking one question? Ron Perlman had plenty of time post-"Beauty and the Beast", but what was Taylor Negron thinking?

gpeltz

imaginative fare

I enjoyed this one, it was a take off of the Frankenstien theme, but this time, an androginous being is assembled, and educated by a caring mentor. It was well filmed, without the violence associated with the genre. The creature asks for two books to read, the bible, and Frankenstien. The effects were modest but effective, the story was intelligent, a decidedly off the beaten track tale, that rewards the viewer who comes to it with diminished expectations. If you like Science fiction, give this one a try.

Batdad

interesting experiment?

This film is an interesting little experiment: lots of bright white light framing images that linger for the camera, the Frankenstein story updated as an anti-war morality tale. Rutger Hauer chews the scenery a bit as the update of Dr. Frankenstein, and the generic evil general is all cartoon; still, Wil Wheaton as Lazarus, the creation, and Nia Peeples as his sympathetic caretaker/tutor, are worth watching. (Taylor Negron also makes an appearance as a slimy cohort who gets his just reward--his specialty.) Not a big budget affair, but not a complete waste of time, either, if you like quirky sci-fi fantasy.

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Part way through production, Rutger Hauer completely discarded the script and refused to do any scenes from it. The majority of his scenes were improvised by him. Later, Executive Producer, Writer, and Director Roger Avary was forced to re-write the remaining script to match up with Rutger's footage.