EW exclusively debuts the trailer for “Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter,” which executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis calls “an indictment of how we discard human beings.”

Watch ’90s fitness icon Susan Powter rise from ‘poverty’ and ‘hopelessness’ in emotional doc trailer

EW exclusively debuts the trailer for "Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter," which executive producer Jamie Lee Curtis calls "an indictment of how we discard human beings."

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October 21, 2025 10:00 a.m. ET

- Susan Powter rises again to deliver Uber Eats and reclaim her voice in EW's exclusive trailer.

- *Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter *follows the '90s fitness icon as she returns from downfall.

- "I don't need to be comfortable, I need to be filmed," Powter says in the emotional clip.

Susan Powter helped "stop the insanity" with her groundbreaking approach to '90s fitness culture, and **'s exclusive preview of her upcoming documentary posits that her fall from grace was marked by a greedy, corporate-minded madness of a different breed.

*Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter*, executive produced by* *Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by Zeberiah Newman, picks up years after the 67-year-old disappeared from her pop culture pedestal. After rocketing to international fame via her popular 1993 *Stop the Insanity! *infomercial, Powter amassed — and lost — a reported $200 million in business deals.

Now living in Las Vegas and working as an Uber Eats driver, Powter opens up in the film about endurance, and what her life looks like after, as the documentary poses, shady management and legal associates drained her finances.

Susan Powter shops at a grocery store in 'Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter' documentary.

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"I don't need to be comfortable; I need to be filmed, so it's fine. I can sit here for hours, as long as I have that light on, and that camera on," Powter says in the clip, which also includes reflections on her life as a delivery driver.

Later in the preview, Powter is shown shopping for low-priced foods at a grocery store, eventually crying in an interview as she recounts "walking back from having spent the whole day in a welfare office."

As she explains, "things had happened that nobody expected" at the height of her fame, which she also details in her 2024 memoir *And Then Em Died*. After fielding a variety of off-kilter career suggestions from her team, Powter agreed to projects that she previously told EW pushed her away from her core message of health and wellness.**

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Powter fronted her *Susan Powter Show* talk series and made TV guest spots on Will Smith's *The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air* and *Designing Women* spin-off *Women of the House*. Still, she turned down a variety of other opportunities that she says her team attempted to push on her — like a role in Kevin Costner's *Waterworld*.

"I think something is shifting. The fear, the poverty, the hopelessness, it's this tsunami of what was, what happened, the truth," Powter says in the trailer, summarizing her disappearance from the spotlight and decision to return with a newfound focus on telling her story. "And I'm going to blow the roof off this time."

Powter exclusively told EW in January in an on-location interview in Las Vegas that one of the most challenging things she faced since losing her fortune was delivering an Uber Eats order to the late comedian and actor Louie Anderson.

Susan Powter drives for Uber Eats in 'Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter' documentary.

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"This got me, because, back in the day, we knew each other. I ring the doorbell of this big order, and Louie Anderson opens the door — and he *knew* who I was. He looked right at me, and he knew. And I knew he knew," Powter recalled at the time, through tears. "He had just had that huge resurrection with that show [*Baskets*] he did. He did such a good job. He was such a nice man."

In an earlier 2024 interview with EW, Curtis explained that the film is "an indictment of how we discard human beings as they get older in this country," and "an exploration of the incredible cruelty that we inflict on older people and the lack of resources, and the lack of dignity offered to these human beings who've lived before us and have been in service to us and have given us the lives we all are now living."**

Susan Powter hugs Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter' documentary.

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She also noted that Powter's story is "a fun, nostalgic look back to a time that was mindless," referring to the excess of '90s-era fitness culture that ultimately served as the backdrop for Powter's downfall. Still, Curtis says the core of the film remains an in-depth "exploration, and a challenge for all of us to look at how complicit we are as individuals in that story."

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*Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter* opens Nov. 19 in theaters via Obscured Releasing. Watch EW's exclusive movie trailer above.

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