Neighbor For Sale ( Everything Must Go ) ( Every thing Must Go )

Neighbor For Sale (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Everything Must Go
Alternate Title: Every thing Must Go
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Dan Rush

Written By:
Dan Rush
Raymond Carver

Actors:
Will Ferrell ..... Nick Halsey
Christopher C.J. Wallace ..... Kenny Loftus
Rebecca Hall ..... Samantha
Michael Peña ..... Frank Garcia
Rosalie Michaels ..... Kitty
Stephen Root ..... Elliot
Laura Dern ..... Delilah
Glenn Howerton ..... Gary
Argos MacCallum ..... Shopper
Todd Bryant ..... Driver - Repo Guy
Tyler Johnstone ..... Big Teenager
Jason Spisak ..... Hipster
Kyle Sharkey ..... Lanky Teenager
Scott Takeda ..... Bank Manager
Matthew Dearing ..... Jacket Buyer

Synopsis:

Everything Must Go is the story of a middle-class man hitting bottom, for reasons that are both as obvious as the empty beer cans that pile up around him and as elusive as the never-seen wife who has just walked out of his life. In a single day the man, a midlevel Arizona sales executive named Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell), loses his job and returns home to find that the locks on his house have been changed, his bank account frozen and all his stuff piled in the front yard. This sad, surreal spectacle of domesticity turned literally inside out; lamps sitting in the sunlight, a recliner where a lawn chair should be; is what links 'Everything Must Go' to its source, a short story by Raymond Carver called 'Why Don't You Dance?' The story, like so many of Carver's, is a jagged shard of painful absurdity, a glimpse of the human condition that the film, written and directed by Dan Rush, expands into a picture window. From a few pages of oblique dialogue and terse prose, Mr. Rush extrapolates a narrative that is less jarring and more familiar than anything in Carver, but nonetheless true to the writer's tough, compassionate and intimately knowing apprehension of masculine defeat. Mr. Ferrell turns out to be an almost perfect embodiment of this theme.

On the day he's fired from his job in Phoenix - for falling off the wagon and waking up in the hotel room of an associate who files a suit for harassment - Nicholas Halsey comes home to find his stuff on the front lawn, the locks changed, and a farewell note from his wife. With his bank account frozen, his credit cards and phone cancelled, and his company car gone, he takes up residence on the lawn. A cop who's his AA sponsor tells him he can sit there for five days as if it's a garage sale, then he'll face arrest. With help from a chubby kid on a bicycle, a pregnant neighbor, and an old high school acquaintance, Nick goes on a beer-soaked odyssey, from his front-yard easy chair.

After Nick is fired from his sales job, mostly because of his penchant for alcohol, he comes home and finds that his wife has kicked him and all of his stuff out of the house and onto the front lawn. He is pretty intent on just sitting in his chair, drinking beer, on the lawn. His cop friend, Frank Garcia, thinks he should at least pretend to have a yard sale to make it legal. He slowly starts making friends with a neighborhood kid who needs something to do, and a pregnant wife who has just moved in across the street, and Nick finds himself moving on and selling all his stuff.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 06 October, 2011.