Why Stop Now (film)
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| Directed by | Phil Dorling Ron Nyswaner |
| Produced by | Neda Armian Brice Dal Farra Claude Dal Farra Lauren Munsch Ron Nyswaner Paul Prokop |
| Written by | Phil Dorling Ron Nyswaner |
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Jesse Eisenberg Melissa Leo Tracy Morgan |
| Music by | Spencer David Hutchings |
| Cinematography | Ben Kutchins |
| Edited by | Suzy Elmiger Colleen Sharp |
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| Distributed by | IFC Films |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Box office | $2,432 |
Why Stop Now is a 2012 American comedy-drama film written and directed by newcomer Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner. It is a feature-length adaptation of their 2008 short film, Predisposed. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan.
Eli Bloom is a young piano prodigy and supermarket clerk who gets wasted the night before his audition for a prestigious music conservatory, embarrassing himself at a party in front of his longtime crush Chloe. In the morning, he has to take his mother, Penny, to rehab for her drug abuse, and his younger sister, Nicole, to school, where her teacher, Lisa, tells Eli that Nicole's sock-puppet friend has been insulting her classmates. Promising to take care of it, Eli takes off to drop Penny off, but she does not qualify for rehab due to lack of insurance. At the center, a nurse tells Penny to go out, get high, and come back with "dirty urine" to get in. Penny enlists Eli to go see her drug dealer, Sprinkles, for cocaine. She doesn't go inside because she owes Sprinkles money. While visiting Sprinkles and his companion Black, Eli becomes the translator for Sprinkles and his dealer, Eduardo.
Meeting Eduardo at a Puerto Rican restaurant, Eli translates what turns into an argument and is shoved to the floor by Eduardo, injuring his right hand, thus putting his audition in jeopardy. In the ensuing car ride, Eli accidentally consumes Penny's oxycodone pills. Arriving at the school for his audition, Eli runs into Chloe with a group of American Revolutionary War reenactors (which Sprinkles mistakingly identifies as civil war reenactors), and she helps him prepare. Eli begins to play his piece but fails to finish because of his injured hand and attitude from the pills.
Leaving the auditorium, embarrassed, Sprinkles shows Eli and Penny the trophy he won for his track record. Sprinkles steals the trophy and he, Eli, Penny, and Black go to pick up Nicole. They drop Nicole off at Penny's sister Trish's, who doesn't like having Penny around because of her drug habit and the fact that she allegedly "completely ruined last Christmas". Eli talks Trish into watching Nicole for a couple hours while he, Penny, and his "colleagues from the supermarket" go do some stuff.
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