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Everything Must Go

Everything Must Go

Comedy · Drama · Romance · 2011

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

Movie details

Everything Must Go

“Lost is a good place to find yourself”

2011 Comedy · Drama · Romance 1h 37m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.4 / 10

55.1K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

73 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

65 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.2 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Everything Must Go?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Dan Rush

Written by

Dan Rush

Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell

Nick Halsey

C.J. Wallace

C.J. Wallace

Kenny Loftus

Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall

Samantha

Michael Peña

Michael Peña

Frank Garcia

Rosalie Michaels

Rosalie Michaels

Kitty

Stephen Root

Stephen Root

Elliot

Laura Dern

Laura Dern

Delilah

Court is in session

Put Everything Must Go on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.