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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard |  | Director: Neal Brennan
Actors: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin, Kathryn Hahn
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $22.99
Buy New: $16.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2919
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 097363523345
EAN: 0097363523345
ASIN: B002T4GWWA
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: December 15, 2009 (In 15 Days)
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Availability: Not yet released
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Look out, Temecula, here comes Don Ready and his band of X-treme salesmen, rarin' to boost sales at a struggling car dealership over the course of a single hardcore weekend. That's the plan in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, a scattershot comedy featuring fast-talking Jeremy Piven as the slippery Mr. Ready, who knows how to lay on the discounts, the free food, and the personal appearances by bottom-tier celebrities. He and his for-hire team (Ving Rhames, David Koechner, and Kathryn Hahn) have three days to clear the lot, or the owner (a game James Brolin) will lose his business. The movie's at its funniest when going for non sequitur craziness (best exemplified by the zany-creepy vibe between Hahn and Brolin's ten-year-old son, played by Rob Riggle, whose glandular condition makes him look like a strapping 35-year-old). Good folks score in drive-by bits: Ed Helms does his best fatuous jerk, Craig Robinson glowers as a grumpy DJ, and producer Will Ferrell gets an extended cameo during which he spends much of his time falling from a plane without a parachute. (He's funny enough that you wish his role weren't confined to a flashback and a fantasy sequence.) The central role is tailor-made for Piven's skills, and he's suitably revved-up, but ultimately the movie leaves him stranded by trying to have it both ways: it can't decide whether it's a totally put-on sketch comedy or a more-or-less sincere redemption story. That won't fly, and the movie sputters accordingly. --Robert Horton
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 The Bads November 30, 2009
john m mozuke
This movie tries too hard with the crude stuff. It just seems forced. There are a few funny parts but it is basically just stupid.
?? Not Original.. November 30, 2009
Jearold D. Ulin (OKLAHOMA CITY ROCK USA)
Wanna watch a Real Classic? Catch "Used Cars".. This film contains what seemingly most film contains of present day.. lackingly un-original and brainless.. Had such high hopes for this.. Was I wrong.. "Used Cars" is the ONLY film to watch when comparing..
Really Terrible...especially considering the solid cast November 28, 2009
BurningKerosene (Long Island, NY)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Had the day after thanksgiving off and figured it's a perfect hang out and watch a movie day. I heard this just came out recently and it looked funny. Boy was I wrong. I was watching this with a friend and after 10 mins I said to him, "wow, this movie is pretty terrible so far huh?" He agreed. It unfortunately did not get any better.
If you explain the general plot, then hear about the actors in it, you assume this movie would be average at WORST. Jeremy Piven playing a used car salesman - this script should write itself. The problem is they try to hit you over the head with every single joke, and in all honesty, most of them aren't funny. There's a few that make you chuckle, but most are just thrown in out of nowhere. All of the sudden someone is yelling and swearing for no reason, and it just didn't make me laugh at all. This is coming from someone who likes stupid comedies. Anchorman is completely stupid, but it's hysterical and well written. This movie is so poorly executed, it's absolutely painful to watch. It makes "Step-Brothers" look like a golden globe winner. I wish I would have spent the hour and half cleaning my room.
I recommend saving your money and waiting for "The Hangover" to come out in a few weeks.
You'd be better off watching a fly on the wall November 26, 2009
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
What an amazingly bad movie.
We watched it last night in disbelief at how unfunny, forced, immature and pointless it was. It contains all the bad points of Judd Apatow/Will Ferrell movies and none of the good; Ferrell produced it, so he clearly has no touch for these things without Apatow's oversight. The script is terrible. Toilet humor, racism, pathetic sex "jokes" and generally mindless grade-school-level gags make for an excruciating viewing experience.
Piven does his best; he's a good sleazeball but there's zero subtlety in the script or the direction so his game effort still falls flat. Each side character is poorly drawn at best. Ving Rhames is miscast and not even remotely funny, as with most of his fellow castmembers. Arrested Development's Tony Hale is one of the few glimmers of quality here, but hardly enough to save it. It's one of those flicks where you have to look away from the screen in embarrassment for the actors, and for yourself for watching.
It kept getting worse and worse until we looked at each other and said, "Enough of our lives have been wasted by this movie."
The end might explode in a dazzling shower of artistic redemption, but I will never know, as you couldn't make me watch this again with Malcolm McDowell's propped-open eyeballs.
Which just goes to show, once again, that choosing a movie because it's on Crockduster's Top Ten Rentals is sheer idiocy.
One day we'll learn.
Pretty weak November 26, 2009
J. Kelly
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not sure Hollywood knows how to be funny anymore. It seems about 1 in 20 comedys actually provide more than 3 good laughs. Toilet humor is fine, but an hour and 23 minutes of it?
I picked up this movie because the previews were funny. In the typical Hollywood fashion, those trailer scenes ended up being the only funny ones.
Save your rental fee.
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