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.

[2] 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.

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.

Eli talks Trish into watching Nicole for a couple hours while he, Penny, and his "colleagues from the supermarket" go do some stuff.

Eli's piano teacher calls him to say that the judges, surprisingly, want him back for another audition the following day.

[2][3] As of June 2020[update], the film holds a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 20 reviews with an average score of 4.46 out of 10.

'Why Stop Now' is a bright screwball comedy about one fraught day in the life of a piano prodigy, his addict mother and her drug dealers.