IF WHISKEY WERE A WOMAN, HOW MUCH WOULD I OWE IN ALIMONY?<\/span> Also last week, I saw Everything Must Go<\/span>, now playing at the E Street Cinema and the AFI Silver theater. Will Ferrell gets fired for being an alcoholic mess, and comes home to find his wife gone, the locks changed, and all his possessions on the front lawn. He basically says, \u201cWell to hell with it then,\u201d and lives on the lawn, holding an ongoing yard sale to get around local zoning laws. Based on a short story by Raymond Carver.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a perfect movie. There\u2019s some on-the-nose dialogue and at least one over-easy plot twist, which I thought let our hero off a bit cheaply. Ferrell\u2019s character befriends a local kid who\u2019s played with a very<\/span> flat affect, which sort of worked for me but was a bit distracting; I imagine a lot of people would chalk it up to bad acting even though I\u2019m not sure it really was. It\u2019s certainly noticeable<\/span> acting.<\/p>\n