There are a lot of things we’ve taken for granted in the era of COVID, and one of those is the road trip. Just getting out and taking a long drive to wherever is something that we just haven’t been able to do much of during the last year, but in the road trip comedy Stop and Go a little thing like a pandemic isn’t enough to stop two courageous young women.
Stop and Go made its debut at SXSW earlier this year under the title Recovery, and comes from filmmakers Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek. Everton (You might recognize her from those annoying Purple mattress ads on Youtube) also takes one of the starring roles as Blake, with Whitney Call playing her sister Jamie. Set at the start of the pandemic when things were at their scariest but also most unknown, the siblings decide to hit the road to visit their grandmother in her nursing home. They start off deciding to be safe, but of course nothing goes as planned.
After a year of really gloomy, depressing COVID movies, either about the end of the world or crumbling relationships, Stop and Go looks like it could be a pleasant change of pace. The film opens in theaters and VOD on October 1st.
Sisters Blake and Jamie’s big plans for the year come to a screeching halt when they are forced to rescue their grandmother and her beloved dog from her nursing home, before their reckless sister can get there first. They embark on a hilarious cross-country race against time while contending with a deranged dog breeder, a highly inappropriate 9-year-old, and a clueless Romeo, all in the name of family.
