Roger Ebert’s Review of WHY STOP NOW (Armian Pictures/Ron Nyswaner)

I can imagine this material being hurtled through at breakneck speed. Not here. The co-writers and directors, Philip Dorling and Ron Nyswaner, have a good feeling for characters and pacing. The drug dealers, for example, aren’t rubber-stamp movie “drug dealers” but plausible people with real lives and feelings. Time is given and attention paid to the construction of scenes, so that the humor grows from the situations and doesn’t pound us on the head. Consider how the daughter’s birthday party is handled, and the grace with which Penny dances with the guy who likes her and feels flattered.

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