When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
Like a bad date; it’s attractive, clever, but lacks a sense of humour.
The movie becomes softer as it proceeds, granting Ferrell fortuitous and even miraculous encounters with beautiful, sympathetic women: Rebecca Hall and Laura Dern. Nonetheless, it's a pleasing, satisfying chamber-piece.
It may stray into a few redundant subplots along the way but Everything Must Go succeeds as a plaintive portrait of a man cast adrift from all the past certainties of his life.
I found this a delicately observed, satisfying movie and greatly enjoyed it.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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