Synopsis
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
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Cast
- Jesse EisenbergEli
- Melissa LeoPenny
- Tracy MorganSprinkles
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.Black
- Sarah RamosChloe
- Emma Rayne LyleNicole
- Stephanie MarchTrish
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Why Stop Now takes large themes much manhandled as movie cliches, and treats them with care and respect. It likes the characters. So did I. - 67
The Playlist
It's well-acted, certainly, though these performances belong in a film with sharper pacing, one that breathes easily. But, this directorial debut from Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner breathes like a frequent smoker: in fits and starts, peppered with coughs and dry heaves. - 50
The A.V. Club
Slips into the no-man's land between screwball and melodrama, squandering both the comic opportunities of an irrational search for drugs and the raw desperation of a piano prodigy who's held captive by his mother's dysfunction. - 50
New York Post
Acquires a little vigor and some fun from Tracy Morgan as a friendly drug dealer who lives with his mom. - 40
The New York Times
Once Why Stop Now? has exhausted its bag of tricks, there is a screeching of brakes as it approaches the edge of the cliff. Having expended all that stamina, the film collapses from exhaustion and settles for an abrupt, feel-good ending that is as perfunctory as it is preposterous. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Why Stop Now? feels trapped in the limbo between comedy and drama where many indies gamely venture, but from which few emerge with any resonance. - 38
Slant Magazine
Shifting between wacky situation comedy and somber familial drama, Why Stop Now? isn't invested enough in either mode to convincingly pull off its genre-hopping ambitions. - 20
Time Out
Nothing - script, performances, comedy, drama - works in the slightest. To answer the title: Where do we start?
