Originally Posted by crazy4diesel

Try to get some lube up in the mechanism and the hood release cable. Not sure about the one side being lower, could be a missing or collapsed rubber stopper, and the hood is cocked and jammed because of that, you could put a 2x4 with a large towel wrapped around the end up from under the car maybe and push up to see if you can get it to release. I had this happen on a Karmann Ghia once, yeah it was a real bugger to get unjammed.