Everyone

I would seem to be in the minority of user commenters -- I had this film from Netflix and liked it so much that I've subsequently bought it for my DVD library. Unlike other people who commented, I've known people who talk like these characters and, despite the seriousness and depression experienced by some of the cast I for one (and only one, apparently) find much that is amusing in the film. The director (and author) and his cast are to be commended. I love this film. I'm not a cinema scholar but, unlike many independent films, the technical aspects are also very good. One does not come away with the impression that it was done on a minimal budget. Excellent sound, editing, scoring and everything else. Bouquets all round!

This movie is a bit like an Altman movie with a giant cast of characters where you hop from person to person to track what is happening as they prepare for and attend a gay wedding. The plot intricately weaves the lives and the themes of death and bearing children.

Brendan Fletcher as Dylan, the manipulative, sexy street kid mom invites just to stir things up steals the show.

Many times in the movie I screamed out "no gay person would ever say that". It was clearly written by a sympathetic clever straight person imagining what gay folk would say. Much of the dialog is far too bitchy to come out of the mouths of today's young gays, and certainly not from a couple about to marry.

Lots of nudity and sex. The sex scenes were quite convincing.

It was shot on location in Vancouver. It spooked me several times when the set looked so much like the house I used to live in with the love of my life on East 27th Avenue.

The film is an odd mix of comedy and tragedy. Some of the co-incidences in the plot seem out of character unless you treat the movie as comedy.

The photography and sound is fully professional, something you don't expect from local film.

The film contains a scene, the most honest I have seen in film, about what is like to be male and horny. On the other hand, characters often do things for motives I cannot fathom.

I rented this movie with no prior knowledge of it. I simply saw Carly Pope in the cast list and thought, "How fun. I remember her from 'Popular'." I thought this was going to be a funny movie, not a depressing flick about depressing people and their depressing lives. I love movies in which families get together for holidays or events (ie. 'Eulogy' or 'Home For The Holidays') and you witness their personal insanities and eccentricities. But I like them because they portray these families in a light that reminds us of our own relatives and allows us to remember that families are insane yet normal. This movie does not do that. It simply removes any faith you may have about commitment, fidelity, love or happiness. I am not a hopeless romantic or blind optimist, but the problems in these peoples' lives did not warrant the amount of infidelity and self-pity that was portrayed. The only characters I enjoyed were the mom, Carly Pope's caterer/bartender and Dylan (only for his quirkiness, his home-wrecker side really bothered me). Basically, this movie is not funny and would have more success if it presented itself as a drama.

Good looking groom-to-be Gale is living with a dumpy arrogant twit of a boyfriend who is not looking forward to being 'married' on the very day of his 'wedding'. Seems a bit late to have left it and quite honestly he deserves not to be married. What Gale is doing with this guy is hard to fathom. Bad script, a dialogue of swear words and characters I couldn't care a fig for, meant that the DVD went straight back into the packet. A shame really because there was so much potential to the film. The families could have been made more sympathetic to the audience, their characters developed in the context of the wedding itself, rather than before the wedding, which didn't tell us who was who and where they fitted in. Bad acting added to the boredom.

"Everyone" is a very good movie, with great performances by most of the cast. It's got a rather simple plot, it's not hard to figure out what is going to happen, but that is not the nerve of the film. This film is really about people. People in love, people in doubt, people in denial, people in grief.

The story revolves around the gay couple who are getting married on their three years anniversary that also happens to be the day that one of the grooms brothers lost his son, three years earlier. They are preparing a rather informal ceremony and celebration and we follow them and their guests all through the day.

It's an emotional roller-coaster ride, and there is no rest; You go straight from one disaster to the next and there are only few truly happy moments on what was supposed to be the happiest day of their lives! I won't reveal the ending, but I will say, that it is a film that tends to haunt you for a while after watching it. Not just in a bad way, but you can't help but think about your own life after wards...