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Why Stop Now is a 2012 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, and Tracy Morgan. It is a feature-length adaptation of their 2008 short film, Predisposed.
Scoring drugs for his addict mother (Melissa Leo) is but one of a piano prodigy's (Jesse Eisenberg) problems as he tries to get his family's affairs in order before he heads out to an important...
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Aug 15, 2012 · "Why Stop Now" is a bright screwball comedy about one fraught day in the life of a piano prodigy, his crackhead mother and her drug dealers. It's the first movie in memory that when the kid is performing onstage and the door at the back of the auditorium opens, he does NOT want a parent to appear.
The story of Eli Smith (Jesse Eisenberg), a piano prodigy, dealing with his troubled mother, Penny (Melissa Leo), and enlisting help from a hapless drug dealer, Sprinkles (Tracy Morgan), on the day he has an audition for a prestigious music program.
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Aug 17, 2012 · 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. Read More. By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW.
Aug 9, 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.Coming to theat...
Why Stop Now? tells the bittersweet story of Eli Smith (Eisenberg), a piano prodigy, and his mother Penny (Leo) who despite her cheerful, loving disposition, struggles with drug addiction. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Why Stop Now - Apple TV. Available on Paramount+, Prime Video, Tubi TV, iTunes, Hulu, Sling TV, SHOWTIME. Eli Bloom (Jesse Eisenberg) is a musical prodigy and he has an important audition to get to. The only problem is his mother.
Piano prodigy Eli Bloom (Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network, Now you See Me) is on his way to the most important audition of his life, but first he has to drop his mother Penny...
