Everybody Wants Some!!

1 week ago - Everybody Wants Some!! is a 2016 American comedy film written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Will Brittain, and Wyatt Russell, it follows the lives of Texan college baseball players in 1980.

A spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused and set in the world of 1980 college life, Everybody Wants Some is a comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities ...

October 25, 2022 - Everybody Wants Some!! is a 'continuation of Boyhood,' says director Richard Linklater | CBC News Loaded ... The so-called 'spiritual sequel' to Dazed and Confused follows a group of baseball jocks navigating the 'best of college,' says director ...

April 25, 2016 - Everybody Wants Some!! is about life as a long series of competitions, the shadow of Reaganomics or capitalism or postmodernism or whatever your preferred signifier of evils. The films are similar in characterization and often in getting just right the vibe of the times, but ultimately opposite in the lesson. The original is not driven by such an existential crisis of purpose, compared to the cutthroat nature of the sequel.

May 26, 2024 - A few years, and many movies later, in 2016, Linklater would put out Everybody Wants Some!! which is a sort of soul sibling to Dazed and Confused. Both movies take place in Austin, Texas, and follow a group of students with Everybody Wants Some!!

March 19, 2021 - After capturing the lives of high schoolers in the ‘70s in Dazed and Confused, Linklater returned to capture the lives of college students in the ‘80s in its belated spiritual sequel Everybody Wants Some!!, released in 2016.

December 18, 2024 - Richard Linklater’s ensemble ... last week, is now hitting theaters two days earlier, moving its limited release to March 30 from April 1. The film will still go into […]...

April 12, 2016 - You may have heard—since it’s been posited as such pretty much everywhere—that Richard Linklater's newest masterful cinematic joyride, Everybody Wants Some!!, is a “spiritual sequel” to a certain beloved, '70s-set high-school stoner comedy in the Linklater canon.

May 12, 2020 - Linklater emphasized that the connection between the films is spiritual rather than direct, which might go a long way toward explaining Paramount's questionable marketing strategy. "It's four years later," Linklater said, in an effort to explain what makes Everybody Wants Some!!

January 10, 2022 - When I first saw Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! in 2016, hyped for some time as a spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused, I spent much of its running time looking for a different movie—or, rather, looking for a clearer pronouncement ...

January 22, 2023 - While the two films have completely different casts and locations, “Everybody Wants Some!!” is a spiritual sequel to its predecessor of more than 20 years, “Dazed and Confused.”

May 3, 2016 - Why tarnish a legacy? And what is a ‘spiritual sequel’, anyway? Don’t worry, people – Linklater has struck another home run with Everybody Wants Some!!, an introspective college comedy that lives, breathes and inhales the essence of his 1993 stoner masterpiece.

June 8, 2020 - Academy Award-winning director Richard Linklater has called his latest film, Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused (1993). It’s not a sequel in the traditional sense: the camera follows an entirely new cast of characters who operate in a different dynamic.

Everybody Wants Some Movie. 64,933 likes · 2 talking about this. From writer/director Richard Linklater comes the spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused. Now On Blu-ray™ and Digital HD

March 30, 2016 - Everybody Wants Some!! is Richard Linklater’s spiritual sequel to Dazed and Confused, focusing on a college baseball team in the early 1980s. This lets Linklater fully explore the male character, a theme he embraces fully, something he is ...

March 31, 2016 - Before I saw Everybody Wants Some, Richard Linklater’s “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, I wondered if the original movie’s most scene-stealing...

October 16, 2015 - Richard Linklater said he viewed it as "the spiritual sequel" to Dazed and Confused as well as a "sort of" sequel to Boyhood (since that movie ended with a boy arriving at college on his first day to meet his roomate and a girl and that's how Everybody Wants Some begins).

October 5, 2021 - The latest film from Richard Linklater is being touted as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, but that description is incredibly limiting. It fits perfectly alongside his entire filmography, and touches on themes from damn near every single one of ‘em to ...

As such, it certainly delivers as a sequel to Dazed, in spirit, as both are comedies with little story arc that instead focus on comical conversations and situations, effectively capturing the tone and attitude of the time and characters depicted. Both films also showcase ensemble casts of unknown young actors, several of whom from Dazed later became stars—such as Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, and Milla Jovovich. It's doubtful if Everybody Wants Some!!

July 27, 2024 - The key to unlocking Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater’s criminally underappreciated “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 classic Dazed and Confused, lies within a character named Willoughby.