Everything Everywhere All at Once

"The universe is so much bigger than you realize".

Science Fiction

Action

Romance

Fantasy

Adventure

### Produced by

Daniel KwanDaniel ScheinertAnthony RussoJoe RussoMike LarrocaJonathan WangPeter Tam Lee

### Budget

$25 million

***Everything Everywhere All At Once*** (abbreviated as "***EEAAO**")* is North American absurdist dramedy film released in 2022. Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (both collectively known as the duo called "The Daniels"), they produced the feature alongside with the Russo Brothers. The story focuses on Evelyn Quan Wang, an aging, weary and frustrated Chinese-American immigrant woman who struggles to keep herself, her naive husband, her troubled daughter Joy, her ill father up and try thrive on her business, a laundromat. On the day she goes to the IRS to avoid of being audited, an interdimensional severance mess up with the reality and all hell breaks loose. Now, she discovers to be an unexpected heroine who must navigate throughout multiple parallel versions of herself from other life paths and acquire the special skills of her other ''I's" to fight and prevent an ubiquitous, chaotic and powerful evil being from causing the annihilation of the infinite multiverse. The film starts Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong and Jamie Lee Curtis.

The New York Times called the film "an exuberant swirl of genre anarchy," as the film incorporates elements of various film genres such as surreal comedy, science fiction, horror, thriller, mystery, musical, adventure, martial arts film, fantasy, documentary, animation, romance and family drama.

***Everything Everywhere All At Once*** premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2022, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 25, 2022, before a wide release by A24 on April 8, 2022. It was a commercial success and grossed over $107 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*** has been received with near-universal critical and popular acclaim alike, with worldwide widespread praise, with singled out laud for the feature towards its screenplay, direction, humor, originality, creativity, the blending of various cinematic genres, metalanguage, imagination, drama, depth, stunt choreography, acting, cinematography, editing, sound score, costume design, visual effects, hair and makeup and, production values overall, also its portrayal of philosophical concepts such as, existentialism, nihilism and absurdism and its approach of themes such as, ADHD, depression, stress, generation gap and Asian-American identity. The film is also considered to be one of the best films of 2022, one of the finest feature films of the 2020s, the best film about multiverse ever made, and hailed as one of the greatest movies of 21st century.

The movie was nominated for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniels, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Quan), and Best Supporting Actress (both Hsu and Curtis), becoming the most nominated film of that year and Michelle Yeoh became the first Malaysian and Asian woman to be nominated to the Oscar in the lead actress category.

## Cast

* Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang
* Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki
* Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang / Alpha Waymond Wang
* James Hong as Gong Gong Quan / Alpha Gong Gong Quan
* Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdra
* Tallie Medel as Becky Sregor
* Jenny Slate as Debbie
* Harry Chum, Jr. as Chad
* Biff Wiff as Rick
* Sunita Mani as TV Musical Queen
* Aaron Lazar as TV Musical Soldier
* Audrey Wasilewski as Alpha RV Officer #1
* Peter Banifaz as Alpha RV Officer #2
* Daniel Scheinert as District Manager
* Randy Newman as Raccacoonie