This hardly sounds appealing - an alcoholic loses his job, wife, home and car all in the space of a day and his solution is to hang out and drink excessively on his suburban front lawn where his wife has left all his belongings - but Will Ferrell turns in an understated, heartbreakingly funny performance in the lead, loaning this Raymond Carver's short story adaptation about crisis-ridden working-class America many moments both deeply emotional and laugh-out-loud funny, and even if his journey nears a resolution a touch too quickly to properly address addiction and even if there is a dismaying victim-blaming plot development, this is a surprising bittersweet, funny, sad pleasure.
★★★★☆
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