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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 100
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 74

Despite the talent in front of and behind the camera, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard largely misfires, proving a squandered opportunity for all involved.

Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 16

Despite the talent in front of and behind the camera, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard largely misfires, proving a squandered opportunity for all involved.

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A smooth-talking jack-of-all-trades attempts to save a struggling car dealership from certain bankruptcy in this comedy starring Jeremy Piven, directed by Chappelle's Show creator Neal Brennan, and produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions. Don Ready (Piven) takes sales seriously; he's always up for a challenge, and he parties as hard as he works. Approached to help an ailing car dealership from falling into the red, Ready recruits a crew of his best men and descends

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Neal Brennan

Written By: Andy Stock, Rick Stempson

In Theaters: Aug 14, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Nov 10, 2009

Box Office:$15.0M

Paramount Vantage

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Cast

Jeremy Piven
Don Ready
Ving Rhames
Jibby Newsome
Ed Helms
Paxton Harding
James Brolin
Ben Selleck
David Koechner
Brent Gage
Kathryn Hahn
Babs Merrick
Jordana Spiro
Ivy Selleck
Ken Jeong
Teddy Dang
Bryan Callen
Jason
Tony Hale
Wade Zooha
Alan Thicke
Stu Harding
Jonathan Sadowski
Blake
Wendie Malick
Tammy Selleck
Craig Robinson
DeeJay
Joey Kern
Ricky
Charles Napier
Dick Lewiston
Rob Riggle
Peter Selleck
Kristen Schaal
Stacey

Critic Reviews for The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

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It's a grab bag of comic ideas, but some of the gags are impressively perverse.

August 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

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I definitely laughed, just not enough to fully recommend it.

August 17, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

This was funny in the beginning, no question, but then it turned into I thought a sort of a very stale comedy.

August 17, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

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I laughed more than I thought I would (though of course hope springs eternal at the movies) and if I ran the Hollywood zoo, I'd give these particular screenwriters another assignment.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

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The oh-so-out-there mentality earns some chuckles, but that, along with Piven's preening, gets very trying. A hard sell is still a hard sell.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

Top Critic

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard has a beater's clunky, fast-moving charm.

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

The Goods isn't trying for much but what it is trying for it more or less succeeds at. That doesn't make it a particularly good movie; in fact it pretty much ensures that it can't be one.

March 22, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net

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Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is an entirely throwaway experience that doesn't offer anything vaguely witty or clever. Look elsewhere to satisfy your comedy needs.

April 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Fan The Fire

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Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

...an agreeable piece of work...

January 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

While it is brash and absurd and funny in fits and starts, it also seems to lose its nerve as it goes on.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinematical

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William Goss

Cinematical

The number of remotely chucklesome jokes in Neal Brennan's comedy is way too low, and the stuff in between them is grimy and depressing.

October 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK)

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

Vulgar, pointless, unfunny comedy.

October 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]

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Philip French

Observer [UK]

Like a dodgy old motor, this smutty comedy about car salesmen roars with life to begin with but putters to a stop all too soon.

October 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]

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David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

Sometimes this kind of comedy just goes too far into rubbishness to make it back.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Nev Pierce

Empire Magazine

A throng of outrageous supporting characters do little to salvage this stalled effort.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out

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David Jenkins

Time Out

These jokes are fired out like one of those ball-throwing machines used for baseball practice - sometimes they hit and they hurt, sometimes they miss, and sometimes they meet the bat.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

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Holly Grigg-Spall

Film4

It isn't merely bad, it makes you want to clamp your hands to either side of your face and do an impersonation of The Scream.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]

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Toby Young

Times [UK]

This film is so crass and so lowbrow its hairline is level with the carpet underlay. And yet, and yet, I must hang my head and confess I did laugh a fair bit.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

They look as if they could provide more laughs but are defeated by bovine gags retrieved from a trashcan full of out-takes.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: This is London

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Derek Malcolm

This is London

That mainstream cinema continually serves up such offensive offal is one thing, but the fact that the boundaries of taste are challenged with such regularity is made all the more alarming when passed off as harmless fun.

October 23, 2009 Comment

Adam Woodward

Little White Lies

On paper, The Goods had the potential to be The Next Anchorman, but unfortunately somewhere in the drawing room, someone decided to pursue cheap laughs over something more substantial.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Digital Spy

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Alex Fletcher

Digital Spy

Jokes only get you so far, and The Goods gets increasingly bogged down in its uninspired plotlines. Ferrell's cameo is a particular lowpoint.

October 23, 2009 Comment

Charles Gant

Heat Magazine

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Completely what I expected. Pretty terrible except for Will Ferrell. He was so funny.

May 7, 2011

Matt Goodman

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Cast: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Ed Helms, Jordana Spiro, Craig Robinson, Tony Hale, Ken Jeong, Rob Riggle, Joey Kern, Jonathan Sadowski, Noureen DeWulf Director: Neal Brennan Summary: When businesses are failing, they call in Don Ready (Jeremy Piven), a fast-talking closer

August 29, 2009

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