Everything Must Go (film)

Everything Must Go is a 2010 American comedydrama film directed by Dan Rush and starring Will Ferrell. The film was based on Raymond Carvers short story Why Dont You Dance? and was released in theaters on May 13, 2011.

Nick spends the night on the lawn. In the morning, he leaves to buy beer and food, returning to find his company car being taken back. In addition, his credit cards no longer work, he has been blocked from the joint checking account he has with his wife, and his phone service is terminated. When the police ask him to vacate the premises, Nick gets them to contact his AA sponsor, Detective Frank Garcia Michael Pea, who provides him with a permit for a yard sale, allowing him three more days before he must move on. Nick gets a neighborhood boy, Kenny Christopher Jordan Wallace, to help him sell his possessions, assuring Kenny he will pay him for the help, and also that he will teach him to play baseball. The first days sale is unsuccessful as Nick is unwilling to let items go.Nick meets his new neighbor, a pregnant young woman named Samantha Rebecca Hall, and invites her to his backyard. There, he tells her that he had been sober for six months until attending a conference in Denver, during which he had gotten blackout drunk with a female coworker he awoke with no memory of the night before, and soon learned that she had lodged a complaint against him, setting the stage for his firing. ........

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