Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) on Netflix
R20222h 20mActionAdventureComedy
Evelyn Quan Wang runs a failing laundromat in Simi Valley and faces an IRS audit. At the tax office, a Waymond from another universe takes over her husband's body.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.7/10661,498 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Plot summary
Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese immigrant in California, runs a laundromat in Simi Valley with her husband Waymond. The business is failing, an IRS audit is coming, her father Gong Gong is irritable, and her daughter Joy is depressed and has a girlfriend, Becky. Waymond wants to talk about their marriage. At the tax office, Alpha-Waymond, a version of Waymond from a parallel universe, takes control of his body and tells Evelyn that every choice opens another universe. Verse-jumping technology, developed in the Alphaverse, lets a person borrow the skills and memories of other selves. The multiverse is in danger from Jobu Tupaki, a being who experiences every universe at once, and Alpha-Waymond believes Evelyn, the biggest failure among her many selves, can stop it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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- The script was originally written for Jackie Chan as the lead, until the directors reconceived the protagonist as a woman, believing it would make the husband-wife dynamic more relatable.
- Awkwafina was cast to star in the film in 2018 but left in January 2020 due to scheduling conflicts, and was replaced by Stephanie Hsu.
- Ke Huy Quan came out of retirement for the film after a lack of casting opportunities, and the directors were inspired to cast him after seeing a meme of Andrew Yang as a grown-up Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- The Daniels declined an invitation from Marvel Studios to develop the first season of Loki because they were about to start shooting their own multiverse film.
- The film's visual effects were done in-house by a team of eight artists using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, after the Daniels' negative experience with a dedicated post-production studio on Swiss Army Man.
- The rock universe scene used Runway AI to automate rotoscoping of green-screen shots, creating mattes that let the rocks be combined with other imagery.
- Michelle Yeoh was the first Asian Best Actress winner, the first Malaysian to win any Academy Award, and the second woman of color after Halle Berry in 2002.
- The film was the first science-fiction film to win Best Picture, and the first to win five of the top six Academy Awards.
