Remembering Elmore Leonard: ‘Stick’ is fine pop entertainment
Stick Written by Elmore Leonard and Joseph Stinson Directed by Burt Reynolds USA, 1985 Part of the reason that Elmore Leonard’s novels got turned into movies so often is that it was so easy to write the screenplays. Entire scenes full of Leonard’s trademark crackling dialogue would go, verbatim, into films like Get Shorty and Out of Sight. …