Everything's Gone Green (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Everything's Gone Green


caption = Promotional poster for "Everything's Gone Green"
imdb_id = 0461946
producer = Henrik Meyer, Chris Nanos & Elizabeth Yake
director = Paul Fox
writer = Douglas Coupland
starring = Paulo Costanzo
Steph Song
JR Bourne
cinematography = David Frazee
editing = Gareth C. Scales
distributor = THINKFilm
released = April 20,2007 (USA)
runtime =
budget =
language = English

"Everything's Gone Green" is a 2006 Canadian comedy film starring Paulo Costanzo, directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland. The film has been rated R for some language, sexual material and drug content.

The film was produced by Radke Films and True West Films. The distributor is ThinkFilm in Canada, and Shoreline Entertainment elsewhere.

This movie, Coupland's first screenplay, won the award for best Canadian feature film at 2006’s Vancouver International Film Festival. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/14/vancouver-filmfest-awards.html Coupland movie gets top award at Vancouver film fest] , cbc.ca]

Plot

Ryan, a good-natured slacker in his twenties, is dumped by his girlfriend and kicked out of their apartment, and, on arriving late to work, is suspended (pending psychological tests) from his job at an anonymous IT corporation. On receiving a phone call from his family saying they have won the jackpot of 4.3 million dollars on the BC lottery, he trashes his office space, and resigns. Unfortunately, when he calls the lottery "Win Line" he discovers they haven't actually won anything. By happy accident, Ryan is offered a job with the lottery bureau interviewing and photographing lottery winners. En route to the job interview he stops to see a beached whale and meets Ming, a set designer in a relationship with golf-course designer and scamster Bryce.

Ryan is enticed by Bryce into participating in a lucrative money-laundering scheme involving new lottery winners, and after the euphoria of new-found wealth wears off is forced to choose between working with Bryce and winning over an increasingly sceptical Ming. Additional complications arise when Ryan discovers that his parents are operating a marijuana grow-op in the family basement, and when he re-visits lottery winners to discover that they are often worse off than they were before winning.

Cast

* Paulo Costanzo ... as Ryan
* Steph Song ... as Ming Yu
* JR Bourne ... as Bryce
* Aidan Devine ... as Alan
* Susan Hogan ... as Mom
* Tom Butler ... as Dad
* Peter Kelamis ... as Kevin
* Gordon Michael Woolvett ... as Spike
* Katharine Isabelle ... as Heather
* Tara Wilson ... as Marcia
* Chiu-Lin Tam ... as Granny
* Camyar Chai ... as Surjinder
* Jennifer Kitchen ... as Linda
* Alexus Dumont ... as Wendy
* Don Thompson ... as Mr. Connor
* Chang Tseng ... as Mr. Ho
* Mark Gibbon ... as Rory
* Melanie Blackwell ... as Receptionist
* Kit Koon ... as Ms. Hamada
* Steven Cree Molison ... as Biker

References

External links

* [http://www.everythingsgonegreen.com Official site]
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* [http://www.reelfilm.com/tiff0601.htm#every Everything's Gone Green review] at Reel Film Reviews.