Everyone
by Bill Marchant
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Actor: Brendan Fletcher, Mark Hildreth, Nancy Sivak, Stephen Park, Tom ScholteDirector: Bill Marchant
Brand: TLA Releasing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TLA Releasing
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DVD Review: "Do we call it a civil union or a marriage?"
Summary: 4 Stars
It seems fitting and terribly pertinent that a film about same-sex marriage should eminate from Canada, where as of this writing, it is about to become federalized across the Nation. In this respect, Everyone is certainly a relevant and interesting film, and it raises some provocative issues, not just about marriage, but also about the fluidity and the delicate nature of relationships in general. But the problem is that for a cutting-edge, independent film, Everyone is surprisingly predictable.
Ryan (Matt Fentiman) and Grant (Mark Hildreth) are an intimate, loving couple who are getting married in a small ceremony from their house. They're both a little nervous about the wedding and have been spending the morning arguing about what to wear, and what kind of service they really want it to be, whether to call it a civil union or a marriage. Ryan wants it casual, but Grant wants it to be more formal. Grant even has hesitations about the whole thing and at one stage begins to question their relationship, shouting to Ryan that, "the Christians are right about us!"
Only close family is being invited to attend, but they come with a fair amount of emotional baggage. Grant's brother Kalvin (Andrew Moxham) is a sexy, stoned-out landscaper whose girlfriend Jenny (Anna Williams) lost her child. There's Madeline (Nancy Sivak), a long time friend of the couple and her husband Shep (the director, Bill Marchant) who is a neurologist and is distraught over the accidental killing of one of his patients.
There's also Ryan's brother Gale (Michael Chase) and his actress wife Trish (Suzanne Hepburn). Trish has just found out she's pregnant and has told Gale she wants a divorce. There's also Ryan's other brother Luke (Steven Park) and his wife Rachel (Cara McDowell) who desperately want to have a child but can't conceive. When Ryan's mom (Katherine Billings) shows up with a mystery guest, a spunky homeless man she finds sleeping at a bus stop, the sexual sparks begin to fly, and Ryan and Grant themselves becoming so heavily conflicted that they begin to wonder whether they should be getting married at all.
While the production values are high and the line deliveries exactly right, the script is often trite, the narrative periodically drags and is nothing special, and the actors are surprisingly boring, and apart from the two leads, they don't possess a lot charisma. Director, Bill Marchant seems to have gone out of his way to make all the women in the film callow shrews, and the men shallow, nasty, and self obsessed. In fact, Marchant has instilled the proceedings with such an uneasy mixture of comedy and drama that the film often doesn't play out that well.
Does the director want to make a socially relevant hard-hitting docudrama on an important social issue? Or does he seek to entertain us with a comedy film perhaps in the style of The Big Chill? Everyone is often neither one nor the other and ends up being a rather strange and lackluster hybrid of the two. However, you certainly have to admire Marchant's earnestness and good intentions, and the film is imminently watchable, but most viewers will probably come away from Everyone either annoyed at the shallowness of the characters, or positively loathing them.
There's the usual obligatory neurosis and the predictable patterns of pre-wedding insanity brought on by jitters and awful family members - one brother is particularly nasty to the couple behind their backs making derogatory comments about them every chance he can get. There are a few laughs as various couples are caught in flagrante delicto and there's also lots of mandatory same-sex wedding humor. There's no doubt Everyone is an admirable effort, and it is certainly recommended viewing, mostly for the contentious subject matter, but much of the movie ultimately ends up feeling a bit dreary and empty. Mike Leonard July 05.
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