Everything Everywhere All at Once
“The universe is so much bigger than you realize.”
2022 | R | 139 min | Action · Adventure · Science Fiction
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Synopsis
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Parents and ChildrenThemeEvery universe is a version of one argument between a mother and a daughter, and the resolution is not a victory but an offer — to be kind in the single life that is actually theirs.
- Food as CharacterMotifAn everything bagel is nihilism made edible: if all of it fits on one thing, then none of it counts — and the film answers that with a plate of laundromat food eaten in company.
- Mirrors and DoublesMotifEvelyn meets the woman she would have been in every branch she declined, and Jobu Tupaki is her daughter pushed to the same limit — here the double is always family.
- Time Out of OrderMotifThe cut does work a plot device normally would: a mid-sentence jump to another universe is both the film's grammar and its claim that a life is the sum of its branches.
multiverse / family / laundromat / absurdist / mother daughter
Credits
- Producer
- Daniel Scheinert, Dan Kwan, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca
- Director
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Dan Kwan
- Screenplay
- Daniel Scheinert, Dan Kwan
- Director of Photography
- Larkin Seiple
- Original Music Composer
Box office · USD, worldwide
×9.87return on budget
Budget
$14.3M
Revenue
$141.2M
Cast · 17
Videos · 2
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