Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDaniel Kwan
Daniel Scheinert
Written by
  • Daniel Kwan
  • Daniel Scheinert
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyLarkin Seiple
Edited byPaul Rogers
Music bySon Lux
Production
companies
Distributed byA24
Release dates
  • March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11) (SXSW)
  • March 25, 2022 (2022-03-25) (United States)
Running time
139 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese
Budget$14.3–25 million[2][3]
Box office$133.2 million[4][5]

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as "Daniels"), who produced it with Anthony and Joe Russo and Jonathan Wang. It follows Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan Yang, with Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis in supporting roles.

Kwan and Scheinert began work on the project in 2010, and its production was announced in 2018. Principal photography ran from January to March 2020. The soundtrack features compositions by Son Lux, including collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, André 3000, John Hampson, and Randy Newman.

Everything Everywhere All at Once premiered at

surreal comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films, and animation.[6] It grossed $133 million worldwide, becoming A24's first film to cross the $100 million mark and surpassing Hereditary
(2018) as its highest-grossing film.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is the most awarded film of all time. The film received a leading 11 nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, and won a leading seven awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Quan), Best Supporting Actress (Curtis), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.[7][8][9][10] It also won two Golden Globe Awards, five Critics' Choice Awards (including Best Picture), one BAFTA Award, a record four SAG Awards (including Best Ensemble), a record seven Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Feature),[11][12] and swept the four major guild awards (DGA, PGA, SAG, and WGA).[13]

Plot

Evelyn Quan Wang, a middle-aged Chinese American immigrant, runs a laundromat with her husband, Waymond, with whom she eloped to the United States two decades earlier against the wishes of her demanding father (referred to as Gong Gong, Cantonese for 'grandfather'[14]). Waymond wants to tell his wife he has filed for divorce but is ignored by Evelyn, who is overwhelmed trying to prepare for a meeting with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), who is auditing their business, as well as for her Chinese New Year party, which Gong Gong is visiting for. Also visiting is Evelyn's daughter Joy and her girlfriend Becky; reluctant to accept Joy's lesbian relationship with a non-Chinese girl, Evelyn introduces Becky to Gong Gong as Joy's "very good friend."

Before and after a tense meeting with IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre, Waymond's body is taken over by Alpha-Waymond, a version of Waymond from the "Alphaverse." Alpha-Waymond explains to Evelyn over the course of the story that many parallel universes exist because every choice a person makes creates a new alternative universe. His wife, the late Alpha-Evelyn, discovered the existence of these universes and developed "verse-jumping" technology, which enables one to transfer their consciousness to a parallel-universe self and gain their skills and memories by performing a bizarre and "statistically improbable" action, such as eating a tube of chap stick. The multiverse is threatened by Jobu Tupaki, the Alphaverse version of Joy, whose mind was splintered after Alpha-Evelyn pushed her to extensively verse-jump. Jobu is nigh-omniscient due to experiencing all universes at once and can verse-jump and manipulate matter at will. She has created an "everything bagel" topped with literally everything,[15] which appears as a toroid singularity[16] that could destroy the multiverse.

After attacking Deirdre due to misunderstanding Alpha-Waymond's cryptic advice and discovering Waymond's divorce papers, Evelyn is taught how to verse-jump to combat Jobu's minions, who converge on the IRS building. She experiences other universes in which she made different choices and flourished, such as one in which her not marrying Waymond led to her becoming a kung fu master and film star. Alpha-Waymond believes that Evelyn, as the greatest "failure" of all Evelyns in the multiverse, has the untapped potential to defeat Jobu. Gong Gong is taken over by Alpha-Gong Gong, who instructs Evelyn to kill Joy to stop Jobu from using her to enter Evelyn's universe. Evelyn refuses and decides to face Jobu by gaining powers through repeated verse-jumping. Alpha-Gong Gong, convinced that Evelyn's mind has been compromised like Jobu's, sends soldiers after Evelyn. While they fight, Jobu locates and kills Alpha-Waymond in the Alphaverse. As Jobu confronts Evelyn in her universe, Evelyn's mind splinters, and she collapses.

Evelyn's consciousness uncontrollably verse-jumps alongside Jobu's across a multitude of bizarre universes. Jobu explains that she has been searching for an Evelyn who can see, as she does, that human existence is pointless and that nothing matters. She brings Evelyn to the everything bagel, saying that she wants to use it to allow herself and Evelyn to truly die. Upon looking into the bagel, Evelyn is persuaded and acts cruelly in other universes, hurting those around her.

As Evelyn is about to enter the bagel with Jobu, she pauses to listen to Waymond's pleas in her universe for everybody to stop fighting and to instead be kind even when life does not make sense. Evelyn has an existentialist epiphany and decides to follow Waymond's absurdist[17] and humanist[18] advice, using her multiverse powers to find what hurts those around her and bring them happiness. In doing so, she repairs her damage in the other universes and non-violently neutralizes Alpha-Gong Gong and Jobu's fighters. In her home universe, Evelyn reconciles with Waymond, tells Gong Gong of Joy and Becky's relationship, and talks with Deirdre after Waymond convinces her to let them redo their taxes. Jobu decides to enter the bagel alone while, simultaneously in Evelyn's universe, Joy begs Evelyn to let her go. Evelyn tells Joy that even when nothing makes sense and even though she could be anywhere else in the multiverse, she would always want to be with Joy. Evelyn and the others save Jobu from the bagel, and Evelyn and Joy embrace.

Some time later, with the family's relationships improved, they return to the IRS building to refile their taxes. As Deirdre talks, Evelyn's attention is momentarily drawn to her alternate selves and the multiverse before she grounds herself back in her home universe.

Cast

(Clockwise) Everything Everywhere All at Once stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and James Hong (not pictured is Stephanie Hsu
)
  • Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang, a dissatisfied and overwhelmed laundromat owner; and as several other versions of Evelyn in alternate universes.
  • omnicidal daughter whose growing nihilism
    is a threat to the entire multiverse.
  • Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang, Evelyn's meek and goofy husband whose existentialism is the antidote to Jobu's nihilism; and as Alpha-Waymond, from the Alphaverse; and other versions of Waymond in alternate universes
  • Jewish stereotypes.[19]
  • Harry Shum Jr. as Chad, a teppanyaki chef working alongside an alternative Evelyn in another universe.
  • James Hong as Gong Gong (Cantonese for 'grandfather'[14]), Evelyn's demanding father; and Alpha-Gong Gong, Alpha-Evelyn's father in the Alphaverse who wants Evelyn to sacrifice Joy to impede Jobu.
  • Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdre, an IRS inspector; and as several other versions of Deirdre in alternate universes.

Tallie Medel appears as Becky Sregor, Joy's girlfriend; Biff Wiff appears as Rick, a laundromat customer; Sunita Mani and Aaron Lazar appear as actors in a musical film Evelyn watches; Audrey Wasilewski and Peter Banifaz appear as Alpha RV Officers; Andy Le and Brian Le appear as Alpha Trophy Jumpers; Li Jing appears as Evelyn's kung-fu teacher,[20] and Michiko Nishiwaki appears as Evelyn's kung-fu opponent and co-star.

Randy Newman, who has scored nine Disney–Pixar films, appears as the voice of Raccacoonie, a reference to the Pixar-animated film Ratatouille (2007); he is credited as a featured artist on the soundtrack "Now We're Cookin'".[21] Cameos include Scheinert as District Manager, and Kwan uncredited as a man sucked into the bagel and as a mugger.[22]

Production

Development

Writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan

Co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the Daniels, began researching the concept of the multiverse as early as 2010, after being exposed to the concept of modal realism in the Ross McElwee documentary Sherman's March (1986).[16] Kwan described the release of the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which also deals with a multiversal concept, as "a little upsetting because we were like, 'Oh shit, everyone's going to beat us to this thing we've been working on.'"[16] He also stated "Watching the second season of Rick and Morty was really painful. I was like, 'They've already done all the ideas we thought were original!' It was a really frustrating experience. So I stopped watching Rick and Morty while we were writing this project."[16]

In early drafts of the screenplay, the directors planned for the main character to be a professor and have undiagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); through his research for the project, Kwan learned that he had undiagnosed ADHD.[23]

Scenes in which Evelyn trains in martial arts and becomes an action film star were visually and contextually inspired by the films of Wong Kar-wai. Chris Lee of Vulture writes that they "conjur[e] a mood of exquisite romantic yearning that will be instantly recognizable ... as touchstones" of Wong's works. The universe in which Evelyn and Joy are rocks was influenced by the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969) and the video game Everything (2017).[16]

Kwan has said the idea of the everything bagel "started as just a throwaway joke", a play on a type of American bagel called an "

book? What should their practices be as a religion? The bagel stuck because it became such a useful, simple symbol that we could point to as filmmakers. And you don't have to explain it much beyond the joke."[16][15]

Casting

Ke Huy Quan
, pictured in 2018, retired from acting in 2002 and returned for this film.

The script was written for Jackie Chan until Kwan and Scheinert reconceived the protagonist as a woman, feeling it would make the husband–wife dynamic in the story more relatable.[24]

The new script's lead character was initially named Michelle Wang, after the film's lead actress Michelle Yeoh, who said, "If you ask the Daniels, when they started on this draft, they focused on, 'Well, we are doing this for Michelle Yeoh.'"[25] The character's name was eventually changed to Evelyn. With her resemblance to the version of Evelyn as a martial artist and film star,[26] Yeoh opposed naming the character Michelle. "Evelyn deserves her own story to be told. This is a very ordinary mother [and] housewife who is trying her best to be a good mother to her daughter, a good daughter to her father, a wife that's trying to keep the family together [...] I don't like to integrate me, Michelle Yeoh, into the characters that I play, because they all deserve their own journey and their stories to be told."[26]

It was announced in August 2018 that Yeoh and Awkwafina had been cast to star in what was described as an "interdimensional action film" from Kwan and Scheinert, with Anthony and Joe Russo attached to produce.[27] Awkwafina left the project in January 2020 due to scheduling conflicts, and was replaced with Stephanie Hsu. James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis joined the cast. It marked Quan's return to film acting, from which he had retired in 2002 due to a lack of casting opportunities.[28][29] Kwan and Scheinert were inspired to cast Quan after seeing a meme of former New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang being shown as a grown-up version of Short Round, Quan's character from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). They were curious to learn what Quan had been doing, and learned that he was the right age to portray Waymond. Coincidentally, Quan had returned to acting soon before he was approached for the role.[30] Quan's former co-star from The Goonies (1985), Jeff Cohen was his attorney to negotiate his contract.[31]

Filming

overcranked at a very high frame rate to accommodate extensive time remapping in post production.[34] The Daniels said the kung-fu fight scenes were shot unusually quickly; for example, the fanny-pack fight was shot in a day and a half.[35] Filming wrapped in early March 2020, during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[36] The first cut ran around 170 minutes.[34]

Visual effects

Visual effects post-production for the film was done in-house, after the Daniels' negative experience with a dedicated post-production studio for their previous film Swiss Army Man.[37] Instead, the filmmakers assembled a small team of five artists, who produced all visual effects using Adobe After Effects, and used Resilio Sync to share the large amounts of data once the pandemic hit.[37]

For Deirdre's appearance, Kwan discovered a picture of a real IRS agent he found online, which Curtis liked and wanted to emulate. Curtis wanted the character to be as "real" as possible and used her real belly for the film, as opposed to a prosthetic.[38]

Themes

Everything Everywhere All at Once incorporates elements from a number of genres and film mediums, including absurdist comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films, and animation.[39][40] A. O. Scott of The New York Times described the film as a "swirl of genre anarchy", explaining that "while the hectic action sequences and flights of science-fiction mumbo-jumbo are a big part of the fun (and the marketing), they aren't really the point. [It is] a bittersweet domestic drama, a marital comedy, a story of immigrant striving and a hurt-filled ballad of mother-daughter love."[6] Laura Zornosa from The New York Times elaborates its addressing of intergenerational trauma through healing relationships. Additionally, Emily St. James wrote on Vox that the film is part of a rising subgenre of "millennial parental apology fantasy", imagining worlds in which parents and children reconcile.[41]

The film explores the

Asian American identity. Anne Anlin Cheng wrote in The Washington Post, "It's not only that the multiverse acts as a metaphor for the immigrant Asian experience, or a convenient parable for the dislocations and personality splits suffered by hyphenated (that is, 'Asian-American') citizens, including LGBT culture. It also becomes a rather heady vehicle for confronting and negotiating Asian-pessimism", a term she uses in reference to Afro-pessimism.[43]

dadaist absurdism and blink-if-you-miss-it [sic] pace, Daniels weaves the chaotic possibilities into the multiverse into a cohesive story about the travails of the road not traveled, and the need to carve out your own meaning in a meaningless universe."[44] Describing Jobu Tupaki's modus operandi, Worthington notes "the living contradiction that is the everything bagel: if you put everything on a bagel, what more is left? And if you've experienced everything that the multiverse can offer, what's the point of any of it?"[44] Kwan said that the everything bagel concept "did two things. It allowed us to talk about nihilism without being too eye roll-y. And it creates a MacGuffin: a doomsday device. If, in the first half of the movie, people think that the bagel is here to destroy the world, and in the second half you realize it's a depressed person trying to destroy themselves, it just takes everything about action movies and turns it into something more personal."[16]

The film engages textually and metatextually with the "real world" of the viewer.[45][46] Critics have noted that one version of Evelyn—a famous martial arts movie star—is a portrayal of Yeoh,[46][47][48] that Ke Huy Quan's experience as a stunt coordinator is used diegetically in Waymond's fight scenes,[49] and that James Hong's transformation into "a more sinister, English-fluent, Machiavellian strategist" parallels his character Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China (1986).[45][50]

Music

Main article: Everything Everywhere All at Once (soundtrack)
Experimental band Son Lux
composed the score.

The musical score was composed by Son Lux, whose members are Ryan Lott, Ian Chang, and Rafiq Bhatia.[51] Daniels asked them to approach the score individually, and not as a band. Lott said, "I think that the complete picture of not only who we are as a band, but also who we are as individuals and what we have accomplished and the places we've gone creatively individually, meant for them that there was a possibility that many of these universes of sound could be within reach with this particular trio."[52]

Son Lux took two to three years to compose the score, which includes more than a hundred musical cues.[53] The soundtrack album consists of 49 tracks and runs for more than two hours. It features several prominent musicians,[54] including Mitski, David Byrne, a flute-playing André 3000, Randy Newman, Moses Sumney, Hajnal Pivnick, and yMusic.[21][55][56] Two songs—"This Is a Life" featuring Mitski and Byrne[57] and "Fence" featuring Sumney—were released as singles on March 4 and 14, 2022.[58] The album was released on March 25 to positive critical response.[59][60]

The film features several instances, both in audio and in dialogue, of the 2000 Nine Days song "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)". When Daniels contacted Nine Days vocalist John Hampson about using the song, Hampson enthusiastically agreed to record three alternate versions of the song for use in the film.[61][62]

Release

Theatrical

The world premiere was at the South by Southwest film festival on March 11, 2022.[63] Its limited release in theaters was on March 25, 2022,[64] and its nationwide release was on April 8, in the United States by A24.[65] On March 30, 2022, the film was released in select IMAX theaters in the U.S. for one night only. Due to its popularity, the film returned to select IMAX theaters for one week starting on April 29, 2022.[66][67] The film was not released in most parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, due to censorship of LGBT issues in those countries.[68] The film was released in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2022.[69] The film was re-released in U.S. theaters on July 29, 2022, unchanged but adding an introduction by Daniels and eight minutes of outtakes after the credits.[70][71] It was re-released again in U.S. theaters on January 27, 2023, on 1,400 screens to celebrate its Oscar nominations.[72][73]

Home media

The film was released on

Lionsgate Home Entertainment.[74][75]

Reception

Box office

As of March 26, 2023[update], Everything Everywhere All at Once has grossed $76.7 million in the United States and Canada and $56.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $133.2 million.[4][5]

In the United States and Canada, the film earned $509,600 from ten venues in its opening weekend. Its debut had a theater average of $50,965, the second-best since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic for a platform release (behind Licorice Pizza) and the then-best opening theater average in 2022.[76] In its second weekend, the film grossed $1.1 million from 38 theaters, finishing ninth at the box office.[77] It received a wide expansion in its third weekend, going from 38 to 1,250 theaters.[78][79] It made $6.1 million, finishing sixth at the box office.[80][81] Playing in 2,220 theaters the following weekend, it earned $6.2 million, finishing fourth.[82] In its sixth weekend, it added $5.5 million, part of which was attributed to a wider IMAX release following its successful box office run until then.[39] It added $3.5 million in its seventh weekend,[83] and another $3.3 million in its eighth.[84] By May 21, it had made over $51 million, surpassing Uncut Gems ($50 million) as A24's highest-grossing film domestically.[85] By June 9, it had made over $80 million, surpassing Hereditary ($79 million) as A24's highest-grossing film of all time.[86] It remained in the box office top ten until its sixteenth weekend, which ended on July 10.[87] The film crossed the $100 million mark worldwide on July 31, making it the first independent film released during the pandemic (and in A24's history) to achieve this distinction.[2]

Outside of the United States, other top-earning territories as of July 31 were the United Kingdom ($6.2 million), Canada ($5.1 million), Australia ($4.5 million), Russia ($2.4 million), Taiwan ($2.3 million), Mexico ($2 million), Hong Kong ($1.7 million), Germany ($1.5 million), and the Netherlands ($1.1 million).[2]

Critical response

Michelle Yeoh received widespread critical acclaim and accolades for her performance in the film, with many reviewers and viewers calling it the best role of her career and earning her the Academy Award for Best Actress
.

Everything Everywhere All at Once received universal acclaim from film critics, and is widely considered to be the

weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[88]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 94% based on 389 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. 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."[89] On August 26, 2022, Rotten Tomatoes users voted Everything Everywhere All at Once as "A24's Best Film of All Time" in their A24 Showdown.[90] Audiences polled by PostTrak gave it an 89% positive score, with 77% saying that they would definitely recommend it.[80]

David Ehrlich of IndieWire called the film an "orgiastic work of slaphappy genius", praising the direction and performances, particularly Yeoh's.[91] The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney called it a "frenetically plotted serve of stoner heaven [that] is insanely imaginative and often a lot of fun", complimenting the cast and score but found the handling of the story's underlying theme underwhelming.[92] In her review for RogerEbert.com, Marya E. Gates lauded Yeoh's performance, writing, "Yeoh is the anchor of the film, given a role that showcases her wide range of talents, from her fine martial art skills to her superb comic timing to her ability to excavate endless depths of rich human emotion, often just from a glance or a reaction."[93] Charles Bramesco, writing for The Guardian, praised Daniels for constructing a "large, elaborate, polished, and detailed expression of a vision,"[42] Amy Nicholson of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "Over its nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time, the movie's ambitions double, and double again, as though it's a petri dish teeming with Mr. Kwan and Mr. Scheinert's wildest ideas."[15]

In her review for

existential despair".[96] Tasha Robinson of Polygon named the scene of Evelyn and Joy Wang as rocks with their dialogue appearing as on-screen subtitles, all while trying to find common ground, as one of the best movie scenes of 2022, saying "...it's a perfect moment. Like so many EEAAO sequences, it turns between emotions on a dime. But the quiet of the moment is essential. Out of context, it's just an odd moment between rocks. But within the context of the film, it's a breather the audience and characters both desperately need, and the emotions are so heightened that just the sight of rock-Joy and rock-Evelyn sharing a companionable laugh is remarkably heartening and hilarious."[97]

Dissenting reviews include that of Richard Brody for The New Yorker, who dismissed it as a "sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie",[98] and that of Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian who described it as "a formless splurge of Nothing Nowhere Over a Long Period of Time".[99]

The New York Times named the character Jobu Tupaki, played by Hsu, one of the 93 Most Stylish "People" of 2022.[100]

Accolades

Main article: List of accolades received by Everything Everywhere All at Once

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".[7][101] It won seven of its 11 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (for Quan), Best Supporting Actress (for Curtis), Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.[102] [103] The film received 10 BAFTA nominations (winning one),[104] 13 Critics' Choice Movie Awards nominations (winning five),[105] eight Independent Spirit Awards nominations (winning a record-breaking seven),[106] and six Golden Globe Awards (winning two).[107] It was named one of the top 10 films of 2022 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.[108][109] The film also won top prizes from Directors Guild of America Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards, Writers Guild of America Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards (where it won a record-breaking four awards).[110]

Everything Everywhere All at Once made Academy Awards history with nominations across multiple categories. Yeoh is the first

woman of color overall after Halle Berry in 2002. Stephanie Hsu's nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category, alongside Hong Chau's nomination for The Whale, marked the first time two Asian actresses were nominated in that category in the same year. It is also the first science-fiction film to win Best Picture,[111][112][113] and to win five of the top six Academy Awards. While no film has won in all four acting categories, it became only the third to win three out of four, along with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976),[114] and the first to also win Best Picture.[115]

See also

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