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The film premiered at the [[Bentonville Film Festival]] on June 18, 2025.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geena Davis-Led Bentonville Film Festival Announces 2025 Lineup, Honors For Lucy Liu, Al Roker|date=May 13, 2025|url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/2025-bentonville-film-festival-lineup-1236395791/|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]}}</ref> The film was screened at the Big Bear Film Festival in September 2025.<ref>{{cite web|title=Big Bear Film Festival Slate Includes Openers ‘Big Bear Move’ and ‘Wingman,’ Plus John Candy Doc|date=August 18, 2025|url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/big-bear-film-festival-programming-1236491201/|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> On October 2, 2025, it was announced that Obscured Releasing had acquired the North American distribution right. The film is expected to be released theatrically on November 19, 2025 in Los Angeles, with additional dates and markets to follow.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obscured Releasing Acquires ‘Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter,’ Doc on Fitness Pioneer Who Created an Empire Then Disappeared|date=October 1, 2025|url=https://deadline.com/2025/10/stop-the-insanity-finding-susan-powter-acquisition-1236567182/|work=Deadline}}</ref> |
The film premiered at the [[Bentonville Film Festival]] on June 18, 2025.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geena Davis-Led Bentonville Film Festival Announces 2025 Lineup, Honors For Lucy Liu, Al Roker|date=May 13, 2025|url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/2025-bentonville-film-festival-lineup-1236395791/|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]}}</ref> The film was screened at the Big Bear Film Festival in September 2025.<ref>{{cite web|title=Big Bear Film Festival Slate Includes Openers ‘Big Bear Move’ and ‘Wingman,’ Plus John Candy Doc|date=August 18, 2025|url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/big-bear-film-festival-programming-1236491201/|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> On October 2, 2025, it was announced that Obscured Releasing had acquired the North American distribution right. The film is expected to be released theatrically on November 19, 2025 in Los Angeles, with additional dates and markets to follow.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obscured Releasing Acquires ‘Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter,’ Doc on Fitness Pioneer Who Created an Empire Then Disappeared|date=October 1, 2025|url=https://deadline.com/2025/10/stop-the-insanity-finding-susan-powter-acquisition-1236567182/|work=Deadline}}</ref> |
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2025 American film
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| Directed by | Zeberiah Newman |
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| Starring | Susan Powter |
| Cinematography | Michiel Thomas |
| Edited by | Leah Turner |
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| Distributed by | Obscured Releasing |
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter is an American documentary film about the life of infomercial guru and fitness icon Susan Powter that is co-produced by actress Jamie Lee Curtis.[1]
The film’s director Zeberiah Newman said that it took him a year to find Powter. Co-producer Jamie Lee Curtis dubbed the documentary an “indictment” of the way society treats older people.[2][3]
The film explores 1990s infomercial, motivational speaker, and pop culture fitness icon, Susan Powter’s meteoric rise to fame and the aftermath of crippling lawsuits and a bankrupted business which left her living in poverty and fading into obscurity.
The film premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival on June 18, 2025.[4] The film was screened at the Big Bear Film Festival in September 2025.[5] On October 2, 2025, it was announced that Obscured Releasing had acquired the North American distribution right. The film is expected to be released theatrically on November 19, 2025 in Los Angeles, with additional dates and markets to follow. The film will be available to stream beginning in December 2025.[6]
- ^ Finan, Eileen; Sheeler, Jason (October 24, 2024). “Susan Powter’s Wallet Gets A Nasty Workout”. People.
- ^ Nolfi, Joey (October 31, 2024). “Jamie Lee Curtis’ Susan Powter doc shows ’90s fitness icon ‘standing up’ amid ‘incredible cruelty’ and lost fortune”. Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ “Jamie Lee Curtis addresses societal neglect of the elderly in new Susan Powter documentary”. The Express Tribune. November 2, 2024.
- ^ “Geena Davis-Led Bentonville Film Festival Announces 2025 Lineup, Honors For Lucy Liu, Al Roker”. Deadline. May 13, 2025.
- ^ “Big Bear Film Festival Slate Includes Openers ‘Big Bear Move’ and ‘Wingman,’ Plus John Candy Doc”. Variety. August 18, 2025.
- ^ “Obscured Releasing Acquires ‘Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter,’ Doc on Fitness Pioneer Who Created an Empire Then Disappeared”. Deadline. October 1, 2025.
