Why Stop Now (2012)


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.

Why Stop Now (2012)

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Released Year: 2012
Runtime: 88 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama

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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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88
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
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 - Gabe Toro
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 - Scott Tobias
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 - Kyle Smith
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 - Stephen Holden
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.

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