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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

Jeremy Piven , Ving Rhames , Neal Brennan  |  R |  DVD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin, Kathryn Hahn
  • Directors: Neal Brennan
  • Writers: Andy Stock, Rick Stempson
  • Producers: Adam McKay, Chris Henchy, Kevin J. Messick, Louise Rosner, Owen Burke
  • Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Paramount
  • DVD Release Date: December 15, 2009
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002T4GWWA
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,089 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard" on IMDb

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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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When asked to save a struggling auto dealership from bankruptcy, Jeremy Piven and his ragtag crew descend on a small California town to party and wreak havoc... and move some cars, in this outrageously funny comedy.

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There are a few funny parts but it is basically just stupid. Uncle Chino  |  12 reviewers made a similar statement
Watch anything else, even old home movies have to be more entertaining. B. Lou  |  16 reviewers made a similar statement
Plus, as usual, Piven simply tries to play "Ari" as this is his only talent. M. Bernhagen  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard bombed hard at the box office this August for reasons I have yet to figure out. My wife and I expected nothing from this movie, and with the bar set so low we were astonished at just how gut-bustingly funny it was from start to finish. Jeremy Piven--so annoying is just about everything he has ever been in--finds a perfect groove in Don Ready, a used-car hustler who needs to impose his will on reluctant consumers the way the rest of need to breathe. He takes an almost prurient pleasure in these conquests which, by itself, would have been funny enough. The fact that he is joined by a team of similarly unscrupulous cohorts lets the movie maintain a comedic momentum which never lets up--start to finish. Ready and his gang (Kathryn Hahn and Ving Rhames, among others) are flown to James Brolin's car lot to spur enough sales for Brolin to keep his business from being taken over by...wait for it...Alan Thicke and Ed Helms. I have always maintained that Christopher McDonald, so slimy in Thelma and Louise, Happy Gilmore, and The Iron Giant, is one of the consistently best bad guys in the business, but Alan Thicke and Ed Helms give him a run for his money. They steal every scene they are in, and any remnant of the good heart that Thicke built up as the vanilla father on Growing Pains is obliterated within seconds of his appearance on screen. Their characters make a perfect foil for Don Ready, since they all share the lack of a moral compass and the open acknowledgement that there is no such thing as right and wrong--only winning and losing.

No stone goes unturned in pursuit of a laugh. The movie opens with a scene of Don Ready convincing an entire flight that the future of our republic hinges on his right to smoke on the plane, during which he seduces a naive flight attendant not because he wants to but just because he can. Other highlights include the beating of a Korean-American by salesmen whipped up into a gingoistic frenzy by Don Ready's recounting of Pearl Harbor, an openly racist/homophobic/misogynist elder salesman who despite every opportunity never learns the error of his ways, the uncomfortably sexual pursuit of a man-child by an under-sexed female sales rep, and an uncredited cameo by Will Ferrel whose character dies in the most ludicrous and hysterical fashion imaginable and whose meaningless death Don Ready, as expected, carries as a token burden (however paper-thin and utterly absurd). And in a throwaway role as a DJ who believes that audience song requests are little more than a subterfuge for slavery, the Office's Craig Ferguson expresses a quiet pain and rage without any trace of humor-killing irony. He's like a black Leslie Nielson.

So, do Don Ready and his team sell all of the cars and save the lot? What do you think? The plot exists only as a vehicle for the jokes, and to the film's credit almost all of the jokes are character driven--this isn't a story that relies on slapstick as a crutch. As such, it is one of the funniest movies released this year, and it definitely deserves to be seen. So ignore the naysayers on RottenTomatoes and enjoy yourself. You won't regret it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars ;0) February 28, 2011
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Ithis movie is silly at times that you still can't help but watch. I love Jeremy Piven's humor in movies like this, I like seeing David Koechner and the gang. It had some good apperance from other actors as well. Good movie to sit and watch. If you like moves such as Old School, The Hangover, Couples Retreat then I think you might like this movie.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A WILL FERRELL MOVIE WITH NOT MUCH FERRELL July 8, 2010
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Adolescent humor-yes. Bad jokes-yes. Gratuitous nudity-yes. But it all seems to work, perhaps because Will Ferrell didn't star in this Will Ferrell movie. He did manage a small role, which he typically smelled up. The movie is based on an occupation I don't believe exists, which is a crack team of migrant expert car sellers. They get the call to save a dealership. The movie has some laugh out loud lines like DJ Request saying, "Nobody tells DJ Request what to play." Or "Did you ever have a relationship last longer than a lap dance?" Besides the smelly scene with Will Ferrell, Ed Helms was fairly bad. I loved Ed on the Daily Show, but face it, he can't act. Rob Riggle did a good job as a 10 year old. The movie moves along smartly through the first day of sales after which the plot suddenly changes direction. Piven seriously examines his life, the car dealership is being sold, etc etc. At this point the movie goes down hill. This was supposed to be a senseless comedy about selling cars, not a bad lesson on establishing roots. Had the movie stuck to the original formula of car cheats and left out Will Ferrell altogether, I would have gave it 5 solid stars.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the goods
this movie is soo amazing. i love it and then i found it here on amazon for 4.99 i jumoed all over it.
Published 4 days ago by Robert Manning
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Funny must see
I would recommend this movie to anyone wanting a good laugh its just plane funny its used cars meets the Browns just too funny
Published 14 days ago by Samuel E. Hopkins JR
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining brain candy
Had low expectations, was satisfied with results. Jeremy Piven is under-rated actor. Good cast in this simple flick and will hit home with many.
Published 16 days ago by Dean Kirsch
4.0 out of 5 stars The Goods
Not the best performance by the cast, took a long time to develop the story and did not quiet tie it together.
Published 26 days ago by Yury C
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Great is only scratching the sruface. I have watched it twice and laughered each time. The movie was well packaged and in great condition.
Published 1 month ago by Jeffrey
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
If your looking for comedy this is where you find, and just when you think it cant get anymore hilarious will farrel makes a guess appearance
Published 1 month ago by ramseurfamily
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the BEST Jeremy Piven Movie
This is one of the only movies where I have laughed nearly non-stop from beginning to end.
This movie re-defines hilarious, and it is about sales and selling.. Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Tamayo
2.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this "Comedy"
Had the misfortune of watching this movie the other night. Not funny in the least, although some of the characters are quirky enough to maintain interest if you've got nothing else... Read more
Published 2 months ago by over and under
3.0 out of 5 stars predictably good
will farrow stole the show with his 3 minute appearance . pretty good movie for a rental movie time movie
Published 3 months ago by jkx250
5.0 out of 5 stars hysterical
Great all star Cast - especially the cameo from Will Farrell! This movie is raunchy but you will find yourself laughing out loud at all the antics!
Published 3 months ago by Lisa A. Rupertus
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