Everything Everywhere All at Once

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**Everything Everywhere All at Once** is a 2022 American science fiction film directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, and Ke Huy Quan.

## Synopsis

Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese-American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.

## Plot

Evelyn Wang tries to finish her taxes at her home, which is a small and cramped living space above a laundromat that she runs with her husband Waymond. Her college aged daughter Joy tries to open up to Evelyn who waves off the fact that she is a lesbian with her girlfriend Becky. Evelyn also puts up with her father Gong Gong who can hardly speak English and whom she cannot bring herself to tell that his granddaughter is gay. She frequently interacts with the friendly redneck Rick and the pompous "Big Nose" who are constants at her laundromat. Completely unnoticed by anyone, Waymond suddenly becomes agile and checks on their computer at the checkout before resuming being his usual self. Evelyn attempts to resume finishing her taxes before having to meet with the IRS.

### Part 1: Everything

Evelyn, Waymond and the wheelchair bound Gong Gong head to the IRS building. While they get in the elevator, Waymond suddenly undergoes a personality change and straps what appears to be two blue tooth ear pieces onto Evelyn. He informs her that he is Waymond from another universe and that she is needed for a very important mission. He gives her instructions that as soon as she leaves the elevator she will be faced with either going to the IRS agent or heading into a broom closet. She is to go to the IRS agent, switch her shoes and then press the earpiece when they turn green. As he adjusts the ear pieces, Evelyn suddenly sees her life flash in front of her; growing up in mainland China before meeting Waymond who whisked her away to America, much to her parents' displeasure, they bought the laundromat and had a happy life before things started to fall apart with the arrival of Gong Gong. Waymond suddenly returns to his usual self, much to Evelyn's confusion.

Evelyn follows "Prime" Waymond's instructions and meets with IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdra who sternly examines her collection of receipts. Deirdre questions many of their purchases, such as a karaoke machine, and starts to find the Wangs rather unpleasant. Evelyn switches her shoes and pushes the button and is suddenly transported to inside the broom closet with the Prime Waymond who reveals to her that she is the key to saving the multiverse. He reveals that in his universe, his Evelyn perfected universe jumping, but in the process created an evil being called Jobu Tupaki who killed her and now plans to wipe out the entire multiverse. Before he can reveal more, something outside the closet begins to cause a commotion. Prime Waymond warns Evelyn before he is "killed" by the being on the other side; an evil version of Deirdre.

Evelyn returns to her universe where her scream alerts everyone. Deirdre cynically takes pity on the Wangs and offers them another week to get their affairs in order. Waymond speaks with Evelyn who, believing she is speaking to Prime Waymond, is under the impression that she is being given instructions. As Deirdre walks up to them to tell them something, Evelyn panics and punches her in the face; causing her to scream in pain. Evelyn realizes that Waymond was talking about a divorce paper that he apparently wanted her to sign. Suddenly, Prime Waymond takes over just as security guards arrive to withhold them. Prime Waymond suddenly eats a stick of lip balm and proceeds to beat up the security guards in a quick and efficient manner. In the other universe, the evil Deirdre answers to Jobu Tupaki who is revealed to be a loudly dressed version of Joy who is in a constant state of entering different universes. She kills the closet Evelyn with her powers.

Prime Waymond drags Evelyn through the building as everyone hastily flees, only for them to be confronted by Deirdre, now possessed by an alternate universe version. Prime Waymond slits the webs between his fingers so that he can know sumo wrestling. However, he gets blocked by a filing cabinet and informs Evelyn that she needs to pick up martial arts either by a.) professing her love to Deirdre, or b.) falling asleep. She fails to do the former and winds up in an adjacent universe where she and Waymond went home to do their taxes and ends up in an argument with him about how divorce might be good for the two of them. Prime Waymond becomes regular Waymond again and he and Evelyn try to escape Deirdre. Just as she is about to catch up with them, Evelyn successfully professes her love to her and activates a universe jump.

In an alternate timeline, Evelyn chooses to stay behind in China rather than go with Waymond and nearly gets mugged, only to be saved by a white haired, yet rather young looking, martial arts master who teaches her kung fu. After winning many tournaments, she moves to the United States and becomes an action movie star. Evelyn is suddenly able to block Deirdre and tosses her into a wall and in an epiphanic moment confesses to Waymond that she enjoyed her other life of staying in China. Prime Waymond takes over and he and Evelyn run.

### Part 2: Everywhere

Everlyn's mind splinters and discovers wildly different universes, one where humans have hot dogs for fingers and one where she works alongside a chef puppeteered by a racoon named Raccacoonie.

### Part 3: All at Once

Jobu Tupaki and Evelyn Wang Quan reunite as a family in a whole new universe very similair to the one in the beginning of the movie. The movie ends with Evelyn not paying attention to Deirdre just like how the movie began.

## Cast

* Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang
	+ Jane Lui as Opera Evelyn (voice)
* Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang
* Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki
* James Hong as Gong Gong (Cantonese 公公, "grandfather")
* Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdra
* Tallie Medel as Becky Sregor
* Jenny Slate as Debbie the Dog Mom / Big Nose
* Harry Shum 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
* Li Jing as Kung Fu Master
* Daniel Scheinert as District Manager
* Jason Hamer, Timothy Ralston and Hiroshi Yada as Raccacoonie Puppeteer
* Randy Newman as Raccacoonie (voice; uncredited)

## Trivia

* The film was originally going to be from Waymond Wang's perspective and also star Jackie Chan.

## Videos & Photos

Everything Everywhere All At Once - Official Trailer HD - A24
## References

1. ↑ Everything Everywhere All at Once Almost Starred Jackie Chan