In Gus Van Sant’s biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, Joaquin Phoenix plays John Callahan, a cartoonist who became a quadriplegic after a drunken car accident and tries to give up drinking with the help of his friends, played by Rooney Mara, Jack Black, and Jonah Hill. If that sounds a little too heartwarming, the film takes a page from Callahan’s own work by combining sentimentality with dark humor; as our own A.A. Dowd put it in his review of the film our of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Phoenix anchors the film to an emotional reality, and there’s something to be said for how Van Sant collides his dueling affinities for cornball uplift and oddball experimentation.”