She hands him the picture she took of him a few days prior, with the message from the fortune cookie he gave her: “Everything is not yet lost”. The next day, he pays Kenny – including what he skimmed for beer money – and receives an appreciative hug from Samantha, whose husband has come home. Asking Frank to tell his wife he is sorry, Nick walks home he almost stops at the convenience store where he regularly bought beer, but moves on and spends the night in his old bed. Driving him home, Frank observes that Nick’s marriage was bound to fail, and gives him Catherine’s divorce papers to sign, along with some money and the keys to Nick’s house. He confronts Frank, who admits Catherine has been staying with him they fight, and Frank declares that Catherine deserves better than Nick. Visiting Frank at his office, Nick answers a call on Frank’s phone from Catherine. When Gary leaves his beer behind, Nick refrains from drinking and returns it to him. She, Nick, and Kenny go out to dinner, where Nick runs into Gary, who reveals that the Denver incident probably did not happen: the female employee was fired for having a history of suing coworkers for sexual harassment, and Nick would likely have gotten his job back if he had not slashed Gary’s tires. Nick apologizes to Samantha, who admits he was right, and has told her husband to either come home or get a divorce. Nick awakens to find Kenny has arranged his belongings with thoughtful price tags, and they sell almost everything. Samantha brings him Valium and tells him to seek help, but Nick replies that she is no better than him for putting up with her husband’s drinking and frequent absences, and she storms off. Out of money and alcohol, Nick experiences withdrawal. Nick reveals that he had been sober for six months until a business trip to Denver, where he got blackout drunk with a female colleague he awoke with no memory of the night before, but she lodged a complaint against him, leading to his firing.įinding a yearbook with a friendly message from an old classmate, Delilah, Nick tracks her down their reunion is awkward, but Delilah tells Nick he still has a good heart.
He bonds with Samantha, who is still waiting for her husband to join her at their new house.
Nick gets Kenny to help him sell his possessions, promising to pay him and teach him to play baseball, but is initially unwilling to let items go. Almost arrested when the police ask him to vacate the premises, Nick has them contact his AA sponsor, Detective Frank Garcia, who provides him with a permit for a yard sale, allowing him three more days before he must move on. He discovers that he has been cut off from his credit cards, joint bank account, and phone service, and his company car is taken back. He returns home to find his wife Catherine is gone, the locks have been changed, and his belongings are strewn all over his lawn she has left a letter explaining that she is leaving him, also over the Denver incident, and not to contact her.Īfter spending the night on the lawn, Nick meets his new pregnant neighbor, Samantha, and pays a neighborhood boy named Kenny to watch his things. After stabbing his supervisor Gary’s tires with his farewell gift – a Swiss Army Knife with his name on it – but leaving it behind, Nick has a confrontation with teenagers outside a convenience store. Well, on April 29 at the Shrine Auditorium, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and a bunch of other really talented comedians and musicians by my side, we are going to right that wrong, and everyone is invited.”īased on his quotes, we’re assuming Ferrell will wear a puffy, unwieldy dress and switch from sneakers to heels – because otherwise it’s not really clear how anything about this event will resemble an actual quince.In Arcadia, Arizona, salesman Nick Halsey is fired from his job of 16 years following an incident in Denver related to his alcoholism. Growing up on the mean streets of Irvine, California, I have vivid memories of all my friends celebrating their quinceañera. “I’d like to think it was just a simple oversight by my mother, but there has been a void inside my for many years. “I have only one great regret in life and it’s that I never actually celebrated my quinceañera,” Ferrell said in a statement, according to Consequence of Sound. The proceeds for the Red Hot Benefit Comedy + Music Show & Quinceañera will benefit Cancer for College (Ferrell’s charity) and the Silverlake Conservatory of Music (Flea’s non-profit organization). Along the way, Ferrell and Smith have become compas, and now the duo will host a joint quinceañera on April 29 at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium. The resemblance between Will Ferrell and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith has delighted the Internet for years, a fact that brought them together in 2014 for a head-to-head drum duel on The Tonight Show.
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