Will Ferrell stars as a man who arrives home after losing his job to find that his wife has left him and changed the locks on their house.
With all the furniture and belongings on the front lawn, he decides to carry on with his life with as much normalcy as he can muster, living on his front lawn in plain view of his neighbors.
This dramatic role is a studied move away from Ferrell's reputation for comedy. He doesn't have much to do with his character as the tone of the film is stuck between wanting to be a pure drama and making comedic light of his situation.
Based on a short story ("Why Don't You Dance") by Raymond Carver, I'm not sure that this is the best adaptation of that particular story.
