Everything Must Go

New Preview Clip from Everything Must Go Starring Will Ferrell

A depressingly funny new preview clip from Will Ferrell's upcoming dram-edy, Everything Must Go, has just been released online. Written and directed by novice filmmaker Dan Rush, the movie is based on Raymond Carver's short story "Why Don't You Dance?" The story follows career salesman Nick Porter (Ferrell), who gets fired from his job for falling off the wagon and then returns home to find that his wife has also dumped him, leaving him—and all of his possessions—out in the cold. With no income and no place to live, Nick cracks a beer and reluctantly holds a yard sale on the very spot where his wife deposited his belongings.

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Everything Must Go (Seriously) For Will Ferrell in New Trailer

Everything Must Go isn't Will Ferrell's first foray into drama — the comedic actor has done several, the most successful of which was 2006's Stranger Than Fiction — but this may be the most, uh, dramatic.

Fist-time director Dan Rush adapted the movie from the short story "Why Don't You Dance?" by Raymond Carver, whose stories were previously used to create Robert Altman's 1993 ensemble drama Short Cuts. The story revolves around Ferrell as an alcoholic who loses his job and his marriage in the same day and decides to have a lawn sale of his possessions.

• Everything Must Go
• Will Ferrell
• Dan Rush