EVERYTHING MUST GO

Contrary to the general public, I prefer Will Ferrell in films with subtlety and humanity which seem to appear in spades in Everything Must Go, which premiered last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Ferrell has made eleventy million dollars playing souped-up versions of real types of people (see: Anchorman, Talladega Nights); here he personifies simply a real person. Nick (Ferrell) loses his job and his wife, so he does what every man would do: lives on his lawn with all of his worldly possessions, and has a yard sale while drinking multiple Pabst Blue Ribbons.



Everything Must Go also stars Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern, Michael Peña and Stephen Root, and is adapted from a short story by Raymond Carver. It hits limited theatres May 13, 2011.