Everything Must Go
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Excruciatingly well-played descent into hell--well, no, we don't actually see the descent; Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell) is already there at the start. Downsides of hell: there's nothing to drink but PBR and no place to pee but the koi pool. Upside of hell: Rebecca Hall lives across the street (but, this being hell, the upside has a downside: she's married and very pregnant).This is about as sad bastard a movie as can be imagined, so why did I come out feeling good? Somehow the hopelessness has a little hope, I guess.
Incidentally, this is one of two films with the same title dated 2010 by IMDb, and the other one's blurb begins "After getting fired from his job and losing his girlfriend, Mac craves hard drugs," which pretty much fits this one, substituting "wife," "Nick," and "beer.
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- Project Nim--Documentary by James Marsh (Man on Wire) about the rearing of Nim Chimpsky; sure, probably.
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