2009 · comedy
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Directed by Neal Brennan1h 29m2009
Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.
Our read: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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