Everything Everywhere All at Once


Wang Family Micelle Yeoh in EEAO

About the film:

a 2022 American independent film written and directed by Daniel Kwan (pictured below, left) and Daniel Scheinert (pictured below, right), who produced it with Anthony and Joe Russo and Jonathan Wang;the film incorporates elements from a number of genres and film mediums, including absurdist fiction, comedy-drama, surreal comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films, immigrant narrative, and animation. It tells the story of Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who,while audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.


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Rating:

Prior to the 95th Academy Awards, IGN reported that Everything Everywhere All at Once had already surpassed The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King (2003) as "the most awarded film of all time". It won seven of its 11 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Quan), Best Supporting Actress (Curtis), Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes,the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 396 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "Led by an outstanding Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once lives up to its title with an expertly calibrated assault on the senses."

For more information about the Rotten Tomatoes review, click here.

The Cast:

Michelle Yeoh (Lead Actress)
as Evelyn Quan Wang, a dissatisfied and overwhelmed laundromat owner; and as several other versions of Evelyn in alternate universes.

Ke Huy Quan (Lead Actor)
as Waymond Wang, Evelyn's meek and goofy husband whose humanist existentialism is the antidote to Jobu's nihilism; and as Alpha-Waymond, from the Alphaverse; and other versions of Waymond in alternate universes.

Stephanie Hsu
as Joy Wang, Evelyn's daughter; and Jobu Tupaki, Alpha-Evelyn's omnicidal daughter whose growing nihilism is a threat to the entire multiverse.

James Hong
as Gong Gong (Cantonese for "grandfather"), Evelyn's demanding father; and Alpha-Gong Gong, Alpha-Evelyn's father in the Alphaverse who wants Evelyn to sacrifice Joy to impede Jobu.

Interested?

For more info about the film, check out the A24 website here.