In fact, there is a line that Phoenix quotes multiple times and it changes the gist or meaning of the line each time as it draws out various emotions from him. But when he reluctantly enters treatment -with encouragement from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a charismatic sponsor How did you buy your ticket? The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review.

Instead, we get super-chameleon Joaquin Phoenix in the role, and though the end result couldn't be more different, it's a keeper in any case. Though movies like this are increasingly controversial to the disabled community, many of whom object to having able-bodied performers. Gus Van Sant's new biopic of John Callahan is an emotional rollercoaster starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill.

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Here's the review for: Don't Worry, He Won'. The most harrowing episode is the auto accident that rendered him a quadriplegic. For a movie running almost a full two hours, Don't Worry is light on conventional narrative. He doesn't seem capable of coming up with Callahan's irreverent cartoons, which Van Sant animates and uses as transitions, and his performance only emphasizes the Is the movie sympathetic to those who suffer from addiction? Does the movie make drinking look appealing or cool in any way? And to be sure, "Don't Worry" is a far better movie than the inert "Sea of Trees." The first half of the film is essentially a string of disjointed degradations, many of which Callahan brings upon himself.

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Then he hits rock bottom and has a hallucination that his mother (who put him up for adoption when he was. The Family and Christian Guide to Movie Reviews and Entertainment What You Need To Know: Using a quirky nonlinear style, DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON As he recovers, John discovers his talent as an irreverent cartoonist and begins to turn around his life. Don't Worry features multiple timelines that all overlap with each other.

There's Callahan as a hard-drinking young man, before the car accident he suffered The thing that fascinated me the most about the movie was Callahan's cartooning; Van Sant brings some of his most famous works to life with. Presented out of chronology, Don't Worry zips back and forth between key moments in Callahan's life, from his carefree days Van Sant never strays far from the man-overcomes-disability genre, but this is more than made up for by some impressive directorial flourishes and an engaging central performance. We get Callahan's story through a series of flashbacks. He's talking at AA, he's being feted at some sort of event, he's jawing with skate kids in the suburbs.