''Everything's Gone Green'' is a 2006 Canadian comedy film directed by
Paul Fox and written by
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He ...
. It was produced by
Elizabeth Yake, True West Films and
Chris Nanos,
Radke Films. Originally acquired for distribution in Canada by
ThinkFilm
ThinkFilm (stylized as TH!NKFilm) was an American film distribution company founded in September 2001. It had been a division of David Bergstein’s Capitol Films since 2006.
On October 5, 2010, five of Bergstein's companies in the film indust ...
, with
Shoreline Entertainment handling international sales, Equinoxe Films later acquired Canadian distribution rights after ThinkFilm's sale to
Capitol Films led to the closure of its Canadian distribution services. The film won the award for
Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2006
Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for two weeks in late September and early October.
The festival is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festi ...
.
[Alexandra Gill]
"VIFF winners"
''The Globe and Mail
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'', October 14, 2006.
Plot
Ryan, a good-natured
slacker
A slacker is someone who habitually work aversion, avoids work or lacks work ethic.
Origin
According to different sources, the term "slacker" dates back to about 1790 or 1898. "Slacker" gained some recognition during the UK, British Gezira Sche ...
in his twenties, is dumped by his girlfriend and kicked out of their apartment, and, on arriving late to work, is suspended (pending psychological tests) from his job at an anonymous
IT corporation. On receiving a phone call from his family saying they have won the jackpot of 4.3 million
dollars
Dollar is the name of more than 25 currencies. The United States dollar, named after the international currency known as the Spanish dollar, was established in 1792 and is the first so named that still survives. Others include the Australian d ...
on the BC lottery, he trashes his office space, and resigns. Unfortunately, when he calls the lottery "Win Line" he discovers they haven't actually won anything. By happy accident, Ryan is offered a job with the lottery bureau interviewing and photographing lottery winners. En route to the job interview he stops to see a beached whale and meets Ming, a set designer in a relationship with golf-course designer and scam artist Bryce.
Ryan is enticed by Bryce into participating in a lucrative money-laundering scheme involving new lottery winners, and after the euphoria of new-found wealth wears off is forced to choose between working with Bryce and winning over an increasingly sceptical Ming. Additional complications arise when Ryan discovers that his parents are operating a
marijuana grow-op in the family basement, and when he re-visits lottery winners to discover that they are often worse off than they were before winning.
Cast
Soundtrack
A soundtrack album was released on CD by
Lakeshore Records
Lakeshore Village Entertainment, LLC was an American independent film production, finance, and former international sales and distribution company founded in 1994 by Tom Rosenberg and Ted Tannebaum. Lakeshore Entertainment is headquartered in Bev ...
in 2007, titled ''Everything's Gone Green: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''.
The Meligrove Band appeared on
MTV Live to promote its release.
Songs
# No Satisfaction -
Black Mountain
# Hangover Days -
Jason Collett
Jason Robert Collett is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario. He has released six solo studio albums, and is a former member of Broken Social Scene.
Early life
Collett was born in Bramalea, Ontario, Bramalea, a Greater Toronto Area ...
# Birdsong -
The Golden Dogs
# The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead -
Final Fantasy
is a Japanese fantasy Anthology series, anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square (video game company), Square). The franchise centers on a series of fanta ...
# Fire -
Jason Collett
Jason Robert Collett is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Toronto, Ontario. He has released six solo studio albums, and is a former member of Broken Social Scene.
Early life
Collett was born in Bramalea, Ontario, Bramalea, a Greater Toronto Area ...
#
Everything You've Done Wrong -
Sloan
# Little Saddy -
Andre Ethier
Andre Everett Ethier (; born April 10, 1982) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 to 2017 and is second all-time in post-season appearances as a Do ...
# Break You -
Hawaii
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# Violet Light -
Raised by Swans
# Skunks -
Caribou
The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only represe ...
# 97 and 02 -
Circlesquare
# I Gotta Plan (for Saturday Night) -
The Deadly Snakes
# Monkey Mask -
The Meligrove Band
# Small Town Murder Scene -
The Fembots
References
External links
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*
Everything's Gone Green reviewat Reel Film Reviews.
{{VIFF Best Canadian Film
2006 films
Canadian comedy films
2006 comedy films
English-language Canadian films
Films with screenplays by Douglas Coupland
Films set in Vancouver
Shoreline Entertainment films
Films directed by Paul Fox
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films
English-language comedy films