
A sheltered, intelligent college student DOUG (RJ Mitte of "Breaking Bad") changes his life forever when he hires an underachieving driver SCOTT (Ray William Johnson of "Equals Three"). In order to escape his oppressively loving MOTHER (Daphne Zuniga), Doug agrees to go on a spontaneous road trip with Scott and his college crush STEPHANIE (Paloma Kwiatkowski of "Bates Motel"). At the height of the journey, a tragic series of events tests their bond and opens the road to self ... (Full plot summary below)
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A sheltered, intelligent college student DOUG (RJ Mitte of "Breaking Bad") changes his life forever when he hires an underachieving driver SCOTT (Ray William Johnson of "Equals Three"). In order to escape his oppressively loving MOTHER (Daphne Zuniga), Doug agrees to go on a spontaneous road trip with Scott and his college crush STEPHANIE (Paloma Kwiatkowski of "Bates Motel"). At the height of the journey, a tragic series of events tests their bond and opens the road to self discovery. Drugs, gambling, and romance await the three friends in this honest American coming of age drama.
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| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekThough it doesn't entirely escape the aura of being a much more serious variant of a formula...the lead performances in particular give it a degree of emotional depth. |
| Village VoiceChuck WilsonThe road-trip drama Who's Driving Doug is earnest but not overly sweet — a blessing for a film with built-in sentimentality traps. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniIt's hard to enjoy a film peopled by so many unlikable people. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenBy turns earnest and profane, the story of three twentysomethings' Sin City sortie contains flashes of wit.... But this road is lined with clichés and blunt dialogue, the emotional shifts all too neatly underlined by Death Cab for Cutie tracks. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenToo shallow to project real charisma, the film is instead questionably sincere from start to finish, as if it's trying to head off questions about why the filmmakers wanted to tell this particular story, especially from the grossly underrepresented but often-manipulated perspective of a person with disabilities. |
| User ReviewClaudia FPerfect movie, warm, smart, brave (to address the tricky subject of people taking on prejudices and discriminations of their features themselves and even using them in their favor without realizing - bravo), yes, there are some clichés, but if they aren't hateful, political clichés that nobody needs, but clichés wrapped in a beautiful, clever and entertaining portrayal of many truths, it is fine with me. More of films like this, please, more of RJ Mitte, more of Daphne Zuniga! |
| User ReviewWS WEnjoyable, beautifully written, and well produced. Though not many of us can directly relate to Doug's specific challenges, this movie does a fantastic job creating and delivering a powerful message that we can all relate to. Who's Driving Doug interweaves humorous scenes and dialog expertly while maintaining an emotional sense of depth and cohesion throughout. Highly recommend this fantastic film. |
| User ReviewRoger GI've got muscular dystrophy and I can most definitely relate, to his rollercoaster of a life. He feels as if our world, has turned It's back, based upon physical circumstance. Shines a light trough, if you will, disabled eyes, but their are more aspects. I would love to see an expansion, into other areas, of disabled life. It's a hit, in my book:) |
| User ReviewKarl WThe movie gives a glimpse of a life many of us know nothing about. The story is so-so however and I mean, I love Transatlanticism as much as the next guy, but this movie was very lazily scored with possibly every song off of a single album basically. It was distracting to me. Who's Driving Doug is watchable. It is enlightening. R.J. is great as usual. I can't give the movie a stellar rating though. |
| User ReviewTroy KLow budget indie that I almost turned off. |