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
Why Stop Now?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rehab.
2012 · 1h 28m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Phil Dorling
,
Ron Nyswaner
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
25%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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
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