The big winner at the Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a bountiful sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes. When she is swept up in an insane adventure, she discovers a multiverse of the lives she could have led, propelling her on a super-sonic highway to save her family and herself. Directed by multiple Oscar winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as the Daniels, this existential comedy explodes the mundane into infinite, visually thrilling and hyperbolic narratives and genres. Yeoh was made for her Oscar-winning role. She spent her earliest years in Hong Kong cinema doing most of her own stunts before her breakout balletic martial arts turn in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At the Academy Awards, she and her co-star Ke Huy Quan made history: she as the first Asian to win the Best Actress Oscar (and the first Malaysian to win an Oscar) and he as the first Vietnamese-born performer to win an Oscar.
Winner of 7 Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture
“Yes, the movie is a metaphysical multiverse galaxy-brain head trip, but deep down — and also right on the surface — it’s a bittersweet domestic drama, a marital comedy, a story of immigrant striving and a hurt-filled ballad of mother-daughter love.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“It’s a tour de force…” — Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Stephanie Hsu, Jenny Slate
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
United States