The movie, “Can’t Stop It” is based on actual events. Shooting begins in the spring of 2026 in North Carolina. If you would like to be considered for one of the fifty roles in the movie, work behind the cameras, or provide a product or service to the production company please tell us here.

The grandfather Jimmy Rogers never knew died in an automobile accident while looking for his truant son, i.e., Red (Jimmy’s father). Red’s Aunt Winifred, when told the sad news of how her brother met his untimely death at age thirty-seven, she turned to Red screaming, hysterically, “You killed him, you killed him, you killed my brother”.

Red’s belief that “life is a cruel joke, barely worth living” is diametrically opposite his wife Esther Rogers’ perspective. This dramatic contrast has Jimmy walking a tightrope trying to follow the beliefs of both parents. Events in “Can’t Stop It” during Jimmy’s Senior year in High School, force him to choose one over the other.

After the mysterious death of his best friend and cousin David Perkins and David’s girlfriend Cathy Carlson, Jediah Hudson finds Jimmy standing on the top railing of the Langford Bridge contemplating ending it all by dropping into the cold icy waters.

Will he jump? You’ll have to see the movie.

To mask the pain of blame, Red uses alcohol and his great gift for words to make everyone laugh at what he considers the “senselessness” of life. In the song, “Telling Stories” Red sings “God gave me a mind for telling stories, and my baby she calls them lies”.

On the surface Red seems O. K., but his deep-seated remorse, guilt and disdain for life, means peril and volatility loom continually.

In the opening scene his drinking gets him fired from the Langford Factory. Then the factory is burned to the ground. Did Red take his revenge and torch it?

You’ll have to see the movie.

By the closing of the first act, we hear Red on the telephone telling his wife Esther he has found a job in Nashville. Is he being truthful or “telling stories” again?

See the movie.

The Jimmy Rogers story is told in present time by Aaron Rizzer (a/k/a Professor Remember). As the Professor calls on Statesville area business associates, he hears songs on the radio that remind him of when Jimmy joined his cousin David’s band, The Rhythm Kings. The “Kings” practiced and performed at Professor Remembers Roadhouse & Bakery Café.

Statesville’s own Professor Remembers Roadhouse will break ground a year after the release of the movie. Professor Remembers has an approach to the restaurant business like no other. What might that be?

You’ll have to see the movie.