Comedy Drama. Directors Phil Dorling Ron Nyswaner. Phil Dorling written for the screen by Ron Nyswaner written for the screen by. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Tracy Morgan Sprinkles as Sprinkles. Isiah Whitlock Jr. Black as Black. Sarah Ramos Chloe as Chloe. Stephanie March Trish as Trish. Paul Calderon Eduardo as Eduardo.
Harper Dill Lucy as Lucy. Tanya Wright Lisa as Lisa. Marilyn Berry Charlene as Charlene. Luna Catarevas Marina as Marina. Kai Chapman Pat as Pat. Nicole Quinn Receptionist as Receptionist. Phil Dorling Ron Nyswaner. Phil Dorling written for the screen by source material: 'Predisposed', a short film written by Ron Nyswaner written for the screen by source material: 'Predisposed', a short film written by. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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.
Events spiral comically out of control as this gang of misfits faces the mistakes of the past, the challenges of the future, and the possibilities of love. A funny thing happened on the way to rehab. Rated R for language throughout, and drug content. Did you know Edit. Trivia Tracy Morgan uses a cane in this film, although it was made several years before his debilitating accident. Goofs When he's with Chloe after the Revolutionary War re-enactment, the bandages are gone from Eli's right hand, and there is no indication of any injury whatsoever.
He's wearing the bandages again, though, at the audition the next day. Quotes Sprinkles : Is this your mom? User reviews 24 Review. Top review. A surprisingly good time despite it's lack of promotion! It tells the story of a piano prodigy trying to get his drug dependant mother the help she needs and move on with his life. He ends up at odds with her former drug dealer who he also ends up helping. The film is well written and acted and is a surprisingly good time despite it's lack of promotion.
Eisenberg plays Eli Bloom, a very talented piano prodigy who works as a supermarket clerk and lives with his drug addicted mother, Penny Leo , and kid sister Nicole Emma Rayne Lyle. Eli has been helping his mom out with Nicole and not pursued his own ambitions so when an audition to get into a well respected music conservatory comes up he jumps at the opportunity to take it and move on with his life. Eli has been having butterflies and panic attacks all day. Penny has apparently been using for years, creating chaos in his life, even though she's been a sweet mother to him and his little sister, whose closest relationship is with a smelly sock puppet.
Melissa Leo " Frozen River " fits comfortably in these careworn roles; her Penny tries hard but is scattered and jumpy. Eli thinks it through and advises his mom to do some coke.
She doesn't have any. This makes necessary a visit to her drug dealer Sprinkles Tracy Morgan , of "30 Rock" , who lives with his mother and his sidekick Black Isiah Whitlock Jr. They, alas, have no stock on hand. Now Eli, who speaks Spanish, finds himself as the translator between Sprinkles and Eduardo Paul Calderon , his Puerto Rican source, which involves a rendezvous in a restaurant and another at a birthday party for Eduardo's daughter.
Eduardo, by the way, falls in love with Penny on the spot. 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. Another example: The mother and the dealers ride along with Eli to his audition, which is complicated because he's injured his hand.
It's being held at his high school, which is the staging area for a Revolutionary War re-enactment that includes the girl he has a crush on. You can imagine how that could play out in an ordinary movie. It's a small community, and Sprinkles attended the same high school. He was an athlete and won a boxing trophy.
The scene where he shows them his photo on a glass display case has a touching poignancy. One of the film's strengths is that it has no bad people. Eli is desperately trying to help, Penny is desperately trying to be helped, the drug counselor helps in the only way he can, and Sprinkles and his sidekick are nice guys whose ambition was not to deal drugs — but what are the odds of making a living as a boxer?
Eisenberg is pitch-perfect. I don't know if that's really him playing the piano, but from the camera angles, it seems impossible to fake.
He's also an excellent translator, which gets him caught in the middle in a funny scene. The addiction is handled in an unusual way, with Melissa Leo never seeming wasted or depraved, but more sincerely out of control. There's a nice understated irony in a key scene because she doesn't want to do drugs, because "this is the best I've felt in days.
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