Everything's Going to Be Great (2025)
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Synopsis
This chronicle captures a year in the lives of the Smart family as they navigate grand ambitions and questions of identity. Throughout their journey, the family members must also contend with haunting presences and the chaotic world of local stage productions.
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Woke Score Breakdown
🎭 Race-swapped character
1All characters are original to the screenplay, and no established or historical figures are portrayed by actors of a different race.
🔃 Gender-swapped character
1No established characters are recast as the opposite sex.
👥 Diverse casting
1The cast is historically and geographically fitting for a family drama set in late-1980s Ohio, New Jersey, and Kansas, and is not assembled to foreground diversity for its own sake.
✊ Racial messaging
1There is no exploration of systemic racism, white culpability, or racial grievance themes.
🛂 Immigrant themes
1The storyline focuses on the internal moves of an American theatrical family and does not feature immigration themes.
🪶 Indigenous peoples
1The film does not address indigenous dispossession, colonization, or related issues.
🏳️🌈 LGBT characters
3The central protagonist, 14-year-old Lester, is explicitly depicted as a queer adolescent who struggles with homophobia at school. His emerging gay identity is a prominent, defining theme of his coming-of-age journey, illustrated by his imaginary conversations with historical queer icons such as Noël Coward and William Inge, and his usage of the musical 'Hair' to ward off bullies.
♀️ Feminist themes
1While Macy is a capable, pragmatic mother who works hard to keep her family afloat financially, the film does not critique traditional gender roles, replace traditional family structures, or frame masculinity as an obstacle.
🏢 Anti-capitalist themes
1The film touches on the financial hardships of running a regional theater company, but it does not critique capitalism, corporations, or the profit motive as inherently exploitative.
🌱 Environmental issues
1There are no environmental or climate-related themes in the narrative.
Content Rating Breakdown
💋 Sex & Nudity
ModerateFeatures a brief sex scene depicting thrusting and male buttock/rear nudity, which is interrupted by a child. A teenage girl also allows a boy to reach under her blouse, and there are several verbal references to genitals, oral sex, adultery, and losing one's virginity.
🩸 Violence & Gore
MildNo graphic violence or gore is depicted. There is a brief, bloodless physical scuffle between two boys, and a character collapses and dies from a sudden heart attack.
🤬 Profanity
ModerateStrong language, including 'fuck', is used a handful of times. Milder terms such as 'shit', 'asshole', 'slut', 'piss', and 'bullshit' are spoken, alongside a homophobic slur used in a schoolyard bullying context that is immediately challenged.
🍺 Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
MildTeenagers are briefly shown consuming alcohol at a party. Characters are also shown smoking cigarettes, including a recurring ghost of a historical figure.
👻 Frightening & Intense Scenes
MildFeatures emotional intensity and distress surrounding a father's sudden, fatal heart attack in a convenience store and the subsequent grief and financial displacement of his family. Although ghosts of deceased historical figures appear to a character, they are presented comically rather than in a frightening or horrific manner.