Everything, Everywhere

Everything, Everywhere

Year: 2023

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kah-Wai Lim

Echo Score: 84

Budget: $14M

Drama

In 2019, director Jay vanishes, leaving behind a mysterious hard drive containing the film “No Where, Now Here.” Actress Eva, who had previously worked with Jay on a film shoot in 2018, begins to retrace his steps, hoping to uncover his whereabouts and the secrets hidden within the recovered film. Her search leads her on an unexpected journey to find him.

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1

Present-day pressures converge

Evelyn's laundromat is under IRS audit, creating financial strain. Waymond comes with divorce papers, hoping to spark a conversation about their marriage. Gong Gong's Chinese New Year visit adds cultural and familial pressure. Joy's depression and her relationship with Becky complicate the household, doubling the personal stakes.

2

Alpha-Waymond reveals the multiverse

In a tense confrontation at the IRS building, Waymond's body is taken over by Alpha-Waymond from the Alphaverse. He explains that countless parallel universes exist because every choice creates a new reality. He introduces verse-jumping as a way to borrow the skills, memories, and bodies of alternate selves.

IRS building
3

Jobu and the Everything Bagel introduced

Alpha-Waymond outlines Jobu Tupaki, the Alpha-Joy whose mind was splintered by endless verse-jumping. Jobu can verse-jump and manipulate matter. She has created the Everything Bagel, a toroid singularity that could destroy the multiverse.

IRS building
4

Evelyn glimpses alternate lives

Evelyn tests verse-jumping and glimpses alternate versions of her life, including a kung fu master and a film star. Each universe shows a different path she might have taken. These revelations hint at untapped potential and set up the conflict that follows.

Various universes
5

Gong Gong is possessed; a drastic directive

Alpha-Gong Gong, controlled by the Alphaverse, instructs Evelyn to kill Joy to prevent Jobu from using her to access Evelyn's universe. Evelyn refuses, signaling her moral stance amid the multiversal chaos.

Quan family home
6

Soldiers arrive; Alpha-Waymond is killed

Alpha-Gong Gong's fighters are unleashed, and the conflict spills into Evelyn's world. In the Alphaverse, Jobu locates and kills Alpha-Waymond, heightening the stakes as the multiverse teeters toward collapse.

Alphaverse
7

Evelyn plunges into a verse-jump spiral

Jobu confronts Evelyn in her own universe, and Evelyn's mind begins to splinter as she is pulled into a vast web of verse-jumps. They leap across a dizzying array of strange universes, challenging their grip on reality.

Across universes
8

The journey to the Everything Bagel

Jobu teleports Evelyn to the Everything Bagel, intending to use it to die together and end their shared reality. Evelyn initially slides toward nihilism as she faces the Bagel's void and its possibilities.

Everything Bagel
9

Waymond's plea turns the tide

Waymond's pleas from Evelyn's own universe call her back, urging kindness and to live meaningfully even when nothing makes sense. His words shift Evelyn's mindset from destruction to possibility, reframing her powers as tools for compassion.

Home universe
10

Choosing empathy and rebuilding the multiverse

Evelyn embraces Waymond's ethic and uses verse-jumping with empathy to fight Jobu's followers and repair damage across the multiverse. She gradually neutralizes Alpha-Gong Gong's fighters and dampens Jobu's threats, stabilizing the collapsing reality.

Various universes
11

Reconciliation at home

Back in the Quan family home, Evelyn reconciles with Waymond and accepts Joy's relationship with Becky. Waymond negotiates with Deirdre to redo their taxes, easing the immediate crisis and restoring some normalcy.

Quan family home
12

Jobu enters the Bagel; Joy pleads

Jobu decides to enter the Bagel alone as Joy pleads with Evelyn to let her go. The plea underscores the fragile balance between nihilism and love, pressing Evelyn to choose her path carefully.

Everything Bagel
13

Joy and Evelyn reaffirm their bond

Evelyn tells Joy that even if she could be anywhere in the multiverse, she will always want to be with her. Joy's trust deepens the emotional core of their relationship, reinforcing the theme of chosen family.

Quan family home
14

Return to the IRS and final grounding

With family relationships mended, they return to the IRS building to refile their taxes. In the closing moment, Evelyn briefly glances at her alternative selves, but she grounds herself in her home universe and the love that anchors her.

IRS building

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 14:15

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