Passion for theatre is a beautiful thing and you love to see it -even on a small scale in community or youth theatre where the acting isn’t particularly good, there’s still a charm in the enthusiasm and the spirit for the work. Not long ago I experienced this with an amateur teen production of Guys and Dolls . But a love for theatre cannot be forceful, and unfortunately that is exactly how it comes across in Everything’s Going to be Great , a movie about how theatrical passion can both ruin people’s lives and give them meaning -struggling to reconcile those contradictory points. Directed by Jon S. Baird from a script by I, Tonya ’s Steven Rogers, it centres on a quirky Kansas family in the 1980s running a small local theatre company. Patriarch Buddy (Bryan Cranston) has long-nurtured dreams of working in Broadway, and his younger son Lester (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) shares his passion and aspirations, while mother Macy (Allison Janney) -a former beauty queen and devout Christian in con...
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