Everyone - It Means You Too
Added 4/15/2009
"Everyone" has all the pros and cons of an indy movie. The subject matter is important and quite well handled yet the quality of acting is in some cases debatable and the script would probably benefit from a bit of doctoring.
This is a story of a gay couple who wants to commemorate their three years together with a marriage (whatever is the name they actually use in Canada) - they throw a party for their relatives who come with a lot of baggage. We have a couple who lost a baby, a couple who cannot conceive, a couple on the verge of divorce, another one going through a rough patch after the man failed to save the life of his young patient while the wife has an affair, and three single women who also find it difficult to cope with their lives. All of these problems start to resurface once the big family meeting gets under way and the gay couple is not free from their own issues as well.
A street punk boy Dylan invited by one of the gay men's mother stirs things out of control, it is his presence that helps the characters see through their problems and start to deal with them. Some of them find this liberating, some remain stuck in their ruts but indy movies usually don't have happy endings for everyone.
This is not a gay movie in the sense of "Will and Grace" or gay porn so keep your expectations very low if your looking for one-liners or hot action. The message seems to be that although the two main characters are gay, they are just a couple like all other couples, being gay doesn't make them better, worse or special.
This is a movie that talks of things we seldom see discussed in earnest in big productions. It does not aim to please, it aims at making you think where you are because everyone means you too.
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I wanted to like it...
Added 3/18/2009
It's an okay movie about a gay couple on the day of the wedding / ceremony of union.
Some reviewers talked about the bad acting...which didn't seem all that awful to me. My main issue is that after an hour and a half of all this drama there was no satisfying resolution to these stories. While that may be lifelike, for a movie it really sucks. I wanted to like this movie but it just wasn't to be.
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EXCELLENT film! Could watch it over and over!!!
Added 3/2/2009
I don't know what the reviewer "Gordon Larko" is smoking. For some reason, he feels compelled to leave the EXACT SAME horrible review and 1 STAR rating for all GAY-THEMED movies. Probably a "personal problem" of his. Hopefully this review will help correct this imbalance. I can't believe AMAZON is allowing this GAY BASHER to use their website as a venue to spread his hate.
By the way, This is an absolutely WONDERFUL movie!
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Drama Absent of Drama...
Added 2/4/2009
I do my best to find admirable qualities in all films, yet 'Everyone' left me wanting those 90 minutes of my life back.
The film follows five dysfunctional couples through a gay wedding. The acting is tolerable at best; the dialog painful. Perhaps my biggest disappointment of all is an utter lack of a plot. The characters are flat and unchanging. If there was any comic relief, I missed it through my cringing.
To be optimistic, it could have been a decent movie... after a total rewrite of the script and recasting. But as it is, I couldn't recommend it to my worst enemy.
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... for no one.
Added 6/2/2007
The one critic's quote on the jacket of this DVD came from a RADIO source, which should have been my first clue before bothering to open it, and it couldn't have been further from the truth. If this movie is "Smart, funny, frank, really well written - really funny," either this critic is into payola or needs to confine herself to critiquing AUDIO. The entire movie was dull, the dialogue was consistently tedious and inane, and only 1 male character out of the bloated cast was even worth looking at. And if this is an example of the "Best Canadian Film", I'll never buy another one. A total waste of money and time. I threw it into the trash.
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