Everything's Gone Green

Everything's Gone Green (2006)

Genres - Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Urban Comedy, Coming-of-Age  |   Release Date - Apr 13, 2006 (USA), Apr 13, 2007 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 93 min.  |   Countries - Canada  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

A slacker edging into his thirties plots a not quite legal get-rich-quick scheme in this satiric comedy written by celebrated novelist Douglas Coupland. Ryan (Paulo Costanzo) lives and works in Vancouver, which has become overrun by runaway Hollywood film crews and folks looking for an easy buck however they can find it. Ryan's unemployed father grows marijuana in his basement, his brother is involved in a real-estate scam that bilks tycoons from Hong Kong who never see the property they only think they own, and Ryan himself is an office drone at a magazine devoted to chronicling the lives of lottery winners. After his girlfriend leaves him for a wealthy yuppie, Ryan falls for Ming (Steph Song), a beautiful Asian woman he meets in a Mandarin language class. Prompted by Ming's desire for a more luxurious lifestyle, Ryan dreams up a scheme to fix the lottery using what he's learned at his job. Adapted from the first original screenplay from Douglas Coupland, Everything's Gone Green received its world premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.

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get-rich-quick-scheme, lottery, magazine, scheme, slacker