Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

“Don't just sit there. Do nothing.”

John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) wants a drink, and after an accident leaves him paralyzed, he wants one even more. A sponsor named Donny (Jonah Hill) walks him into a church-basement recovery group, where he picks up a pen and forces his injured hands to draw cartoons. Gus Van Sant leaves him at the drawing board, the pen shaking in his fingers, a crooked line on the page.