The Summer Movie Season is always filled with big-budget blockbusters and highly-anticipated sequels. But often it’s smaller films that have the most impact and turn-out to be the most enjoyable. “Everything Must Go” may be one of those for 2011.
This drama, about an alcoholic who loses his job and his marriage on the same day, was shot in only 10-days. But when a script is good and the acting is solid it doesn’t matter how long it takes to make a movie.
Will Farrell stars as Nick, who is forced to deal with the problems in his life on his front lawn, where his wife has dumped all of his stuff. Even though things look bad, he gets help from a young boy in the neighborhood (played by Christopher Jordan Wallace – son of the late Notorious B.I.G.) and they decide to hold a yard sale, so Nick can get rid of his past and start new.
Farrell is very good here. With this and his performance in “Stranger Than Fiction” the funnyman has proven that he can more than handle dramatic roles. This is his movie, but Wallace is also outstanding, as the rest of the supporting cast, including Rebecca Hall, who plays a new neighbor who also helps Nick.
“Everything Must Go” is a little film, based on a famous short story. You may not have even heard of it when it was in theaters. But the characters are real, the performances are believable, and the ending is not pure Hollywood.
It’s rated R for adult subject matter and situations. I can’t say everyone must see it, but if you do I think you enjoy it, especially for Farrell.
On “The Official L-C-J Report Card“, “Everything Must Go” gets a B.