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On a movie night with a friend I suggested that we rent this movie. From the preview you see Will Ferrell, defeated and living in his yard, a couple lines of silly dialogue with him and the neighborhood kid he befriends. Get this - This movie is not funny or light in anyway.
Your mood and expectations when you sit down to watch a movie can be as important as the movie itself. Perhaps, I was just not in the right headspace, but this movie didn't do it for me. It was drab, depressing, and fell flat on most accounts; including Ferrell's character.
In the movie Ferrell loses his job the same day his wife leaves him, and later we find out she is also sleeping with someone else. His car gets repossessed, the wife changes the locks to the house and drains all the funds from their accounts. He buys beer with the little bit of money that he has and lives in a recliner on the front lawn with all of his positions strewn all over.
They have a bit of a back story about him being a baseball player so you hope that at least he will find a way to offer some life advice to the chubby kid. Which he does, minimally. Then you think something sweet will arise from the pregnant neighbor across the street (Rebecca Hall), then it doesn't. I mean he gets some reprise with the cheating wife leaving him and losing his job right? No, he's a loser deadbeat and that is the movie in a nutshell!
Obviously I was less than impressed, but again, I was in the mood for a dramcom. In Everything Must Go, what should really go is the story entirely. To redeem Will Ferrel and his dramatic comedy abilities, if you haven't seen it you must watch Stranger Than Fiction!
Will Farrell in Everything Must Go
in Stranger Than Fiction
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