Dan Rush directs his padded adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story, Why Don’t You Dance? Will Ferrell, as the central character, is a bit of an obstacle. He plays an upper-middle-class alcoholic whose wife leaves him on the same day that he loses his job. He returns home to find his possessions scattered about the front lawn and spends the next three days living on that lawn, ruing his existence. Ferrell is earnest, if not entirely up to the task, and receives ample support from Rebecca Hall as the new neighbor on the block. (2011) — John Rubio
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