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Everybody Wants
Some!! (2016)
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Director:
Richard
Linklater |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Comedy/Coming-of-age |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Everybody Wants Some!! |
RUNNING
TIME
116 minutes |
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Producer:
Megan Ellison
Richard Linklater
Ginger Sledge |
Screenwriter:
Richard
Linklater |
Review
This
feelgood nostalgia trip back to 1980 is designed to tell us
something about life as a college freshman on a baseball
scholarship, but really tells us more about Richard Linklater's
romanticized view of his own youth. The story is too slight and
generic to give the film any real identity, and Linklater also fails
to give it any sort of narrative drive. Instead he must cling to his
"Greatest Hits of 1980" soundtrack and an over-talkative,
quasi-philosophical dialogue for effect. With characters who feel
more like modern young adults dressed up for a 1980s theme party
than actual people from 1980, Everybody Wants Some!! never is
able to transcend your run-of-the-mill college flick.
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