Every Day Movie Review: Each 24 Hours Brings Another Boyfriend

Every Day English Movie Details:

Directed by: Michael Sucsy

Produced by: Anthony Bergman

Peter Cron

Christian Grass

Paul Trijbits

Screenplay by: Jesse Andrews

Music by: Elliott Wheeler

Cinematography: Rogier Stoffers

Production company: Likely StoryFilmWave

Distributed by: Orion Pictures

Release date February 23, 2018

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie Review:

If the filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, best known for scripting metaphysical puzzle films like “Being John Malkovich” and “Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind” were to try his hand at a Young Adult story, “Every Day” might be it. The movie’s second lead character, a consciousness or, if you will, soul that refers to itself as “A,” inexplicably wakes up every morning inhabiting a different teenager’s body. “A” has this amazing personality that it supposedly tries not to let impinge overmuch on its host’s own personality. But one morning, A wakes up in the body of the handsome but loutish Justin. He’s the boyfriend of Rhiannon, a bright, beautiful high schooler who deserves better. And thanks to A, she gets it, for one magical day of hooky.

After which A is, well, hooked. It pursues a skeptical-to-the-point-of-freaked-out (wouldn’t you be?) Rhiannon from a variety of bodies, male and female. Midway through the picture, A wakes up in Rhiannon’s body, and the twist, while reminiscent of one in “Being John Malkovich,” is heartwarmingly benign.

Now would be a good time to point out that Charlie Kaufman did not write this — the screenplay is by Jesse Andrews, from a novel by David Levithan. (It is perhaps no accident, however, that one of the film’s producers is Anthony Bregman, who also produced three Kaufman-penned movies.) The director is Michael Sucsy, who is not always up to the challenges of the knotty material — we live in a world of mainstream movies with clumsy edits, but this one has more conspicuously bad cuts than most. The cast does excellent work, particularly Justice Smith, who as Justin gets to play World’s Worst and Best boyfriend and nails both. And as Rhiannon, the appealing Angourie Rice is just the kind of teenager you root for in the finding-true-love department.

Plot:

A shy 16-year-old girl named Rhiannon falls in love with a spirit named A, a travelling soul who wakes in a different body, living an entirely different life every day.

Production:

On June 2017, it was announced that MGM had acquired film rights for the novel Every Day with Angourie Rice attached to star as Rhiannon from a screenplay by Jesse Andrews, author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, with Michael Sucsy directing. In July 2017, the rest of the main cast was announced, as the film began production in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Later, Owen Teague joined the cast. The film was shot in Toronto, from July 6, 2017 until August 12, 2017