Synopsis
A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
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Cast
- John ChoMax
- Mia IsaacWally
- Kaya ScodelarioAnnie
- Mitchell HopeRusty
- Jemaine ClementDale Angelo
- Quentin WarrenSamuel
- Graham VincentRichard
- Madeleine McCarthyJen
- Jade HarlowTami
- Ava DiakhabyHotel Employee
Recommendations
- 80
Slashfilm
Don't Make Me Go is at its strongest when Cho and Isaac are onscreen together, reflecting back the kind of tense, but loving, father-daughter dynamic which is so lovingly familiar and relatable to many of us. - 80
The New York Times
Cho and Isaac’s stellar performances expose the gulf between familiarity and intimacy. - 75
IndieWire
Don’t Make Me Go is a sweet, charming, and eventually daring dramedy with tons of heart. - 60
Variety
The movie’s ending is misguided to the point of being perplexing rather than upsetting, recasting everything that came before it in a less favorable light. That’s a shame, as this father-daughter drama starring John Cho has more than its fair share of touching moments before hitting the roadblock that is its questionable third act. - 60
NME
Don’t Make Me Go is a strange beast: a film that feels a little predictable until it snaps and stretches credulity to the limit. Thankfully, Cho and Isaac’s affecting performances are a lot more nuanced than the writing. - 50
The Film Stage
Cho, Isaac, and a cameo from Jemaine Clement become bright spots in a film trying too hard to buck trends of other road-trip journeys while ultimately falling into similar traps. Life lessons and karaoke songs go to waste with the talent of a cast too good for this story. - 50
Paste Magazine
Even some of its rawest emotional moments feel studiously cribbed from other movies, which is probably why not a single thing any character does throughout Don’t Make Me Go is genuinely surprising or even slightly unexpected. It’s a movie about the unpredictability and inherent dangers of a life well-lived, and you can set a watch to its screenwriting beats. - 50
The A.V. Club
Even for a movie obsessed from the outset with its destination, Don’t Make Me Go mostly takes a road to nowhere.
