Why Stop Now?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rehab.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rehab.
Comedy, Drama
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2012
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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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Rated:
R
Runtime:
88 min
Release date:
17 Aug 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$2,400
Awards:
1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
First-time directors Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner can't find a coherent emotional tone, and the actors' energetic contortions can't keep the sinking story afloat.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
6 Sep 2012
rotten:
Drug abuse stories are to Hollywood what babies are to mothers: fascinating to the talkers, not so interesting for their audiences.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
17 Aug 2012
rotten:
Feels trapped in the limbo between comedy and drama where many indies gamely venture, but from which few emerge with any resonance.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Aug 2012
rotten:
As "Why Stop Now?" gathers momentum, the increasingly uneasy sensation it produces is not unlike that of being in the back seat of a speeding car whose drunken driver refuses to give up the wheel.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
16 Aug 2012
rotten:
Why Stop Now refuses to keep faith with its characters, to carry them as far as they can go without tying them up in a neat bow of redemption.
– Ella Taylor,
NPR,
16 Aug 2012