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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jeremy Piven
• Ving Rhames
• James Brolin
Director
• Neal Brennan
MPAA Rating
R - for sexual content, nudity, pervasive language and some drug material.
Video/DVD Releases
Dec 15, 2009 (DVD)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten
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2/5
"It's just too bad The Goods doesn't give Piven the opportunity to shine like those freshly polished cars he pushes so well"  Filmcritic.com  Blake French

D
"Swings spastically for guffaws and jolts, but it's more successful at eliciting blank stares or, during certain sequences, complete disbelief that something this jumbled and directionless could find a theatrical release."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

1/10
"The Goods' vulgarity is not new or clever or even comically shocking. It is, instead, prosaic and repetitive."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

1.5/4
"The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard could have been more agonizing to sit through. As is, it is merely a disposable failure. The film just wanders along, complacent and insincere as it heads down a dead-end street."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

1/4
"Struggling to fill out its 80 minutes before the final codas, The Goods has the definitive feel of a film that has been chopped up and left for dead. Of course you have to wonder how bad the cut footage is if this is all we're seeing."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

F
"Crass, stupid and ineptly made, this car-lot farce is so awful that it ought to qualify for the "Cash for Clunkers" program on grounds of polluting the atmosphere."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

3/5
"The Goods is uneven, mis-shapen, lumpy, bumpy and scattershot; it's also funny, or funny in bits, or very funny in very weird bits that almost, kind of, make up for how uneven, mis-shapen, lumpy, bumpy and scattershot it is."  Redbox  James Rocchi

"Parental Content Review"  Screen It!  Jim Judy

D+
"Despite a few chuckles, this loud, obvious and raunchy comedy suffers from a worse fate than its cheesiness - it's utterly forgettable."  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

"It's possible that this appallingly awful excuse for a raunchy comedy is meant to be satirical, but I suspect it's merely shockingly incompetent, even grading on the raunchy-comedy curve."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2/4
"With a comedy like this, you want to be laughing constantly, not every 15 or 20 minutes."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

B-
"This is slash and burn, shock and awe comedy and it's cheery outrageousness makes enough of it work to, in Don Ready's terms, make the sale."  Beliefnet  Nell Minow

"The funniest thing about "The Goods" is that the presence of James Brolin pretty much ensures that Barbra Streisand will have to sit through it at least once."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

2.5/4
"a raucous comedy that adheres to the one-joke-pony structure ... except the talent Brennan attracts is stronger, and the jokes his screenwriters attempt are more obscure."  Charlotte Weekly  Sean O'Connell
OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten
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