Everything Must Go (Blu-ray) (2010)

Editor's Note Will Ferrell offers his fans a change of pace as he takes on a rare dramatic role as a man struggling to hold his life together. Nick Halsey (Ferrell) was once a successful salesman with a happy marriage, but years of drinking are finally catching up with him, as he's fired from his job and his wife has decided she's had enough. Nick's wife has kicked him out of the house and moved all his possessions onto their front lawn; hoping retain a bit of dignity and maybe raise some cash as he plots his next move, Nick puts a yard sale sign on his stuff and tries to convince the neighbors (and the cops) that he's simply selling some junk he doesn't need anymore. As Nick makes believe he isn't homeless in between beers, he strikes up a friendship with a kid from the neighborhood (Christopher Jordan Wallace), tries to reconnect with a girl he loved in high school (Laura Dern), and bonds with his neighbor Samantha (Rebecca Hall), who is pregnant and struggling to get by while her husband is away on business. Based on a short story by Raymond Carver, EVERYTHING MUST GO was the first feature film from director and screenwriter Dan Rush.

	Laura Dern
	Stephen Root
	Will Ferrell
	Christopher Jordan Wallace
	Rosalie Michaels
	Michael Pena
	Glenn Howerton
	Rebecca Hall
	Argos Maccallum - Co-Star
	Jason Spisak - Co-Star
	Tyler Johnstone - Co-Star
	Kyle Sharkey - Co-Star
	Scott Takeda - Co-Star
	Matthew Dearing - Co-Star
	Leeann Dearing - Co-Star
	Chris Cook - Co-Star
	Steven Scally - Co-Star
	Andy McDermott - Co-Star
	Lance Gray - Co-Star
	Narinder Singh - Co-Star
	Dan Rush - Screenwriter
	John Estes - Photography
	Anna "Tina" Sims - Hairstylist
	Todd Bryant - Co-Star
	Todd Bryant - Stunt Coordinator
	Marcia Calosio - Set Decorator
	Michael Barrett - Director of Photography
	David Torn - Composer
	Margaret Yen - Music Director
	Raymond Carver - Source Writer
	Joseph McDougall II - Assistant Director
	Beau J. Genot - Post-Production Supervisor
	Sam Zeines - Music Editor
	Scott Lumpkin - Production Manager/UPM
	Dan Rush - Director

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "So far, Ferrell has only hinted at his capacity for dramatic acting but he proves he's a natural here. His performance is introspective and subdued, even in witty moments." 04/06/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"[Ferrell] upends expectations from the very first scene....Like Bill Murray and Greg Kinnear before him, this funnyman reveals serious acting chops." -- Grade: B- 05/20/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[With Ferrell] in his most emotionally naked performance yet....There are tiny gems contributed by Laura Dern as the long-lost high school crush...and Stephen Root as a prickly neighbor..." 05/13/2011

Chicago Sun-Times
3 stars out of 4 -- "Will Ferrell is a gifted dramatic actor....Ferrell plays Nick straight from the shoulder 05/11/2011

USA Today
3 stars out of 4 -- "As he did in STRANGER THAN FICTION, Ferrell displays surprising range when he ratchets down the volume....An utterly restrained portrait of a man hoping to sell of his worldly goods along with his past." 05/13/2011

New York Times
"Mr. Rush extrapolates a narrative that is less jarring and more familiar than 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." 05/13/2011

Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "Rush keeps his film rigorously unsentimental, but Ferrell opens a wound and makes it impossible for us to ignore it." 05/27/2011

Sight and Sound
"[Ferrell] gives a valid and unshowy performance." 12/01/2011