Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Evelyn Wang is a Chinese-American woman who runs a struggling laundromat with her husband, Waymond. Tensions in the household are high due to the laundromat being audited by the IRS after Evelyn incorrectly filed her taxes. Additionally, Waymond is trying to give divorce papers to Evelyn; Evelyn’s father, Gong Gong (Cantonese: “grandfather”), has just arrived from China; and Evelyn’s daughter, Joy, has been trying to get her mother to accept her girlfriend, Becky. While at the IRS building, Waymond’s personality changes when his body is briefly taken over by Alpha Waymond. Alpha Waymond explains to Evelyn that many parallel universes exist, since every choice made creates a new universe.

The people of the Alpha Universe, led by the late Alpha Evelyn, developed “verse-jumping” technology that allows people to access the skills, memories, and body of their parallel universe counterparts. The multiverse is being threatened by Jobu Tupaki, formerly Alpha Joy. Her mind was splintered after Alpha Evelyn pushed her to extensively verse-jump; Jobu Tupaki now experiences all universes at once and can verse-jump and manipulate matter at will. She has created a black hole-like “everything bagel” that can potentially destroy the multiverse. Alpha Waymond believes that Evelyn, as the greatest failure of all Evelyns of the multiverse, is being hunted by Jobu Tupaki because her untapped potential can allow her to defeat Jobu Tupaki.