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  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Eli is a piano prodigy. Today is the audition that will determine his future-- will he launch a career and take off into the world? Or will he stay stuck, caring for his sister and mother who, despite her cheerful, loving disposition, is a drug addict. The only obstacle to a seamless transition into his future is dropping off Mom off at...

Directed By: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner

Written By: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner

  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Why Stop Now

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
36
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Eli is a piano prodigy. Today is the audition that will determine his future-- will he launch a career and take off into the world? Or will he stay stuck, caring for his sister and mother who, despite her cheerful, loving disposition, is a drug addict. The only obstacle to a seamless transition into his future is dropping off Mom off at...

Directed By: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner

Written By: Phil Dorling, Ron Nyswaner

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
36
20% Positive
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40% Mixed
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40% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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88
Aug 15, 2012
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.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 17, 2012
Acquires a little vigor and some fun from Tracy Morgan as a friendly drug dealer who lives with his mom.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 15, 2012
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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 16, 2012
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 13, 2012
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.
By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW
20
Aug 14, 2012
Nothing - script, performances, comedy, drama - works in the slightest. To answer the title: Where do we start?
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
0
Aug 14, 2012
An unbearable 90-minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists.
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.2
55% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Production Company BCDF Pictures, Armian Pictures
Release Date Aug 17, 2012
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Tagline A funny thing happened on the way to rehab.
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Awards

Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination

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