Richard Linklater brings to life a teen comedy and drama starring quite a few of the Hollywood standouts like Zoey Deutch, Tyler Hoechlin, Glen Powell, Ryan Guzman, and more as college students back in the eighties.
Everybody Wants Some is set in 1980s Texas and follows the life of baseball players living together in a communal house and the ups and downs of their day-to-day shenanigans.
Thought to be a continuation of the 2014 film Boyhood, this slacker comedy takes its name from the Van Halen song and promises a nostalgic trip to the roaring eighties decade. The director of Before Sunrise fame brings to the audience a very articulately presented picture of the average life of American youth, especially in their college days.
An American sports classic, it imparts a lesson about moving through the hardships of life while embracing the passions of the youth. It is a film about a young freshman athlete Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner), who meets his new unruly teammates (Glen Powell and Ryan Guzman) and embarks on a journey of disco dancing, chasing women, and managing the freedom and obligations of life as an adult.
We are introduced to the characters of Billy ‘Beuter’ Autrey (Will Brittain) and Beverly (Zoey Deutch), the roommate and the love interest of our all-state pitcher.
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With rules in place by the coach and absolute disregard for them by the inhabitants of the house, the players move on with their lives. From a full frontal view into club-hopping, dress-up parties, hungover practices, and more, Everybody Wants Some has got it all.
Right from the first time meeting the people you will spend the next many years of your lives with to the very first lecture, the movie covers the prominent moments of the spry college days of these young adults.
The movie leaves you with a warm sense of satisfaction, and its feel-good ending is not worth missing. Linklater masterfully packs a winding story, a lighthearted drama, and a fantastic soundtrack into his film Everybody Wants Some. If you haven’t gotten around to binge on this teen comedy, then turn to Amazon Prime Video now and give it a watch.
The filming locations of Everybody Wants Some!
Amidst the beautifully told story and behind the scenic practice scenes, Everybody Wants Some filming locations certainly must have piqued your interest. Look no further, for we have compiled the attractive sets where the movie was brought to life.
Weimar, Texas
The majority of the filming of the film took place in the Strickland Field of Weimar City, with some contributions to the set via San Marcos, Bastrop, and Elgin, all in Texas. The vast expanse shots of the university where the characters of the assembled cast studies are filmed in the Texas State University in San Marcos with the cruising cars and elegant buildings.
We get a glimpse of East Austin in the scene where we see a sea of students load and unload their cars as they move to the offsite housing (Cherrywood neighborhood). But that’s not it for Austin and its beautiful nooks that are often borrowed in movie scenes.
The quaint swimming hole moment between Jake and Beverly, as they float in the water with the sun going down, was shot in the Blue Hole of the Regional Park of Austin.
The Oz party was housed in the city of Taylor, which also lent its landscapes to other films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Boyhood. The magnificent Richland Hall of the Cameron Road Manor offered the floor for the dance hall scene in the first half of the movie.
Taking a little piece here and there from the wide variety of locations available in Texas, Everybody Wants Some enriches the viewer’s experience of authentic Texas college life by rolling out real-life sets. Over the short period of three days that the film takes place, we see it all, from hunky discos to somber Flower Halls of the Texas State University, where Jake and Beverly kiss.
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