A laundromat, a stack of unfiled tax receipts, and the fate of every possible universe collide in Everything Everywhere All at Once, a genre-scrambling adventure built around one exhausted immigrant mother.

What is Everything Everywhere All at Once about?

Evelyn Wang, an aging Chinese immigrant running a struggling laundromat with her husband, is pulled into an audit meeting that turns out to be the least of her problems: a version of her husband from another universe reveals that only she can stop a catastrophic threat unraveling across the multiverse. To fight back, Evelyn has to tap into the lives of alternate versions of herself — including ones who chose radically different paths — gaining their skills and memories in flashes as she jumps between realities. Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert build the film around Michelle Yeoh's lead performance, with Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis filling out a family drama disguised as an action-fantasy spectacle. Beneath the universe-hopping fight scenes and absurdist detours, the story stays anchored to a mother and daughter struggling to understand each other, using the multiverse premise as a way of asking what it actually means to choose the life you have.

About the cast

Michelle Yeoh anchors the film as Evelyn, with Stephanie Hsu and Ke Huy Quan in central roles alongside James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tallie Medel, Harry Shum Jr., and Jenny Slate rounding out the ensemble.

Context & significance

Everything Everywhere All at Once was released in 2022 and became one of the most widely discussed films of that year, credited with helping bring big-budget multiverse storytelling and Asian-led ensemble casts further into the mainstream at the same time. Its mix of genres, from martial arts to family drama to outright absurdism, made it a talking point well beyond typical genre-film audiences.

Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once on Ktime

Everything Everywhere All at Once streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, making its rapid tonal shifts easier to follow for Farsi-speaking audiences. The page is free to browse without an account; watching the film itself only requires a free K-Time login.