On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
19 July 1980, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
10 November 1982, Long Island, New York, USA
17 April 1985, Bedford, New York, USA
28 August 1969, Hermosa Beach, California, USA
29 March 1967, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 26, 2018
It is apparent that the film has undergone extensive editing because it feels imbalanced when emphasising Callahan's alcoholism while under-developing and omitting other important facets.
July 20, 2018
The film sings with creativity and a feel-good '70s vibe and some fantastic dark humor.
July 19, 2018
Cartoonist John Callahan is given an appropriately unorthodox remembrance in Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, an off-kilter biopic about an off-kilter guy.
July 26, 2018
Gus Van Sant's biopic about a self-made artist brims with hard-won wisdom and terrific performances from unlikely actors.
July 19, 2018
Leave it to filmmaker Gus Van Sant to make a film about a hopeless drunk who becomes a quadriplegic into a story that's funny, dark, sad, sweet and even sort of inspirational.
September 10, 2018
Instantly recognizable...it does a fine job translating his delectably tasteless and self-deprecating sense of humor.
September 10, 2018
The specificity of the character that Hill plays...I don't know where that performance came from...what's interesting and apparent is that there's truth there, something real and his own.
September 21, 2018
The film's main problem is one of excessive length. Intriguing as it is, some judicious pruning would have made it a whole lot better.
September 26, 2018
Ultimately, the film functions the same way these cartoons do, through exaggeration and metaphor.
August 28, 2018
John Callahan's life becomes one of the most interesting recent portraits of an artist's journey. But the beauty of Van Sant's approach is that he brings it down to earth, because every life is a hard road traveled.
July 20, 2018
Can one wan directing job mute the sheer performance power of Joaquin Phoenix? The answer, of course, is no. Not this time, at least.
July 19, 2018
The film, loosely adapted from Callahan's life, is as divisive as his work, sure to be considered brutally funny by some and brutally insensitive by others.

