Everything Must Go
The film centers on alcoholic Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell) a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the same day and, faced with his life imploding, begins living on his front lawn.
10 February 1967, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
3 May 1982, London, England, UK
29 August 1973, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
June 30, 2013
A gratifying story with a quietly powerful performance from funnyman Will Ferrell.
March 13, 2013
Good performances by Ferrell and Wallace and fantastic cinematography make Everything Must Go an enjoyable watch.
May 13, 2011
This isn't Ferrell's first dramatic role; he played seriocomic leading men in Stranger Than Fiction and Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda. But it's the first one that provides a glimpse at his possible future as a Bill Murray-style character actor.
February 04, 2012
Gentle understatement that stealthily but surely gets under the skin and touches the heart.
May 13, 2011
In the end, Everything Must Go is something of a consciously static study in sadness, both well-made and wearying.
May 15, 2011
I was not waiting for a punch line. I was not primed to laugh. I accepted Ferrell as Nick and, because of that, I was able to enjoy Everything Must Go on its own terms.
May 13, 2011
Taking stock and letting go -- of superfluous things, of worn-out love -- is a strong theme. But the progression of the script is like Nick's self-help program. We're familiar with the steps.
May 13, 2011
Rush draws on the intense attachment we can feel for the mundane objects in our lives. For Nick, these things are talismans from a past that promised a lot more than it delivered.
June 22, 2013
Has a similar problem to its protagonist: It just sort of sits there.
January 02, 2012
Everything Must Go is a pleasantly engaging, entertaining human portrait - a journey that doesn't physically stray very far, but which treads a million metaphorical miles within its main character as he attempts to go from broken man to redeemed man.
May 20, 2011
The unlikely combination of Will Ferrell and author Raymond Carver pays off beautifully.
January 11, 2013
The best movie Will Ferrell ever made
