Product Details

• Actors: Paulo Costanzo; Steph Song; JR Bourne; Aidan Devine; Susan Hogan; Tom Butler; Peter Kelamis; Gordon Michael Woolvett; Katharine Isabelle; Chiu-Lin Tam; Camyar Chai; Tara Wilson (III); Jennifer Kitchen; Alexus Dumont; Don Thompson; Chang Tseng; Mark Gibbon; Melanie Blackwell; Kit Koon; Steven Cree Molison
• Directors: Paul Fox
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: TSUNAMI
• DVD Release Date: July 31, 2007
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000Q7ZNYA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,533 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Everything's Gone Green" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Interview With Paulo Costanzo, star of Everything's Gone Green

Paulo Costanzo, the star of Everything's Gone Green, took the time to answer a few questions for us about himself and the making of the film.

What got you into acting?
I was always shy as a kid and hated it. When I was fourteen my mom forced me to watch this old movie that I thought looked lame called The Graduate. It just... it lit some sort of fire in me. I mean.. I don't believe in fate completely, but it felt like that. It felt fateful. It just was never a question for me after that. It was what I wanted to do. Make movies. Act.

Ever had any jobs where you've had that "dead end" feeling your character Ryan experiences in the movie?
I worked at Red Lobster for about three weeks when I was a teenager. I hated it so much that I finally just started missing shifts until finally the manager took me aside to have a "talk". He tried to pep me back up for the job but I just quit.

What did you like about shooting in Vancouver?
Everything. I fell in love with it.

What are your upcoming projects, and who would you like to work with in the future (actor, director)?
It's looking like my next project is a horror movie. It's a cool script. Scary. Classic. P.t. Anderson is cool. Tarantino. Rodriguez. I made guerilla movies with my buddies when I was younger, so I gravitate towards the hardcore, self-styled guys like that. The filmmakers who grew up in the trenches and still have those rough edges. .

Do you have any books, music or DVDs that you recommend for people to check out?
Right now I'm listening to Amy Winehouse and The White Stripes. No books to recommend. Except The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It's not new, but it's my favourite. Everyone should read that book.

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Product Description

Dumped and fired, Ryan (Paulo Costanzo) just had the worst day of his life. Down but not out, this amiable slacker stumbles on a lottery scam that starts bringing in the cash and the ladies. But is he in over his head? In the tradition of Grandma’s Boy and Road Trip.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Never seen "green" have so many definitions..., June 11, 2007

By	S. Stacy "SS" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

I first saw this movie in the theatres in April and I couldn't stop laughing. This is independent film making at its best. Not only was it written by Douglas Coupland (yes, of Generation X) but it stars the always hilarious Paulo Costanzo, from Joey and Roadtrip doing what he does best, a slacker who tries to get ahead in life by scamming lottery winners- what a brilliant idea! His acting almost reminds me of Jon Heder in Napolean Dynamite.

This movie is ingeniously written. Not only does it have substance with its storyline, but it throws in these comedic elements that make you think how did Coupland come up with that? All I can say is watch out for Paulo's parents in this movie- they are the best part!

As a friend on MYSPACE of Everything's Gone Green, I saw that the movie is finally coming to DVD. To make things even better, they have an UNRATED edition. From looking at the DVD cover, I can't help but notice the reference to pot and the special bonus features that come with the DVD. It seems to capture the essence of the movie perfectly.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars gently tweaking the cult of Easy Money, October 7, 2007

By	Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Shot in beautiful British Columbia, the low-budget Canadian import, "Everything's Gone Green," is not, as the title might suggest, yet another Al Gore environmental documentary, but rather a witty, incisive meditation on how we choose to define "success" in the modern world.

Ryan is a 29-year-old Vancouver resident whose life is going nowhere fast. In one day alone, he gets dumped by his girlfriend, is fired from his job and discovers that his family HASN'T won the million dollar jackpot that his father mistakenly believed they had. The one ray of sunshine to come out of all of this is that Ryan is offered a job working for the lottery commission, a position he only halfheartedly accepts, but one which eventually leads him to think long and hard about what it is he truly wants out of life.

When we first meet him, Ryan is a man deeply bored and unhappy with his life but utterly unsure of how to go about changing it. On the one hand, he dreads the prospect of devoting decades of his life to a tedious, unfulfilling job, yet, on the other, he finds himself yearning to join his boyhood chums already comfortably ensconced in the great middle class. Ryan must figure out if achieving financial success will require a total abandonment of youthful idealism or if there is some way to retain one's principles and still have all the material wealth one could possibly want. Indeed when he takes a good look at all the people around him - be they his slacker buddy, the yuppie boyfriend of the girl he`s fallen for, the lottery winners he is forced to interview, or even his very own parents - he discovers that they have all found ways to make ends meet without having to work very hard at it. And what does it really matter if those folks have to break a law or two or indulge in some shady and immoral enterprise to get their hands on some cash? It's all part of the lure of Easy Money and the cult-like addiction that comes along with it. It's only when Ryan decides to get a little of his own in the same way that his real crisis of character begins.

Douglas Coupland has written a smart, thoughtful script that finds humor in the off-kilter incongruities of daily life: Ryan's being the sole occupant of an otherwise empty, multi-story skyscraper; his clean-cut, retirement-age parents being arrested for farming pot in the family basement; his love interest whose job as a movie set designer is to make Vancouver, Canada look like any part of the world other than Vancouver, Canada (in a very clever swipe at "runaway" American filmmaking). Director Paul Fox brings an offbeat sensibility to the material without overemphasizing the "quirkiness" factor, as so many other independent filmmakers are wont to do. The atmosphere is heightened to be sure, but he is also careful to keep the story and the comedy sufficiently grounded in the real world so we can more easily identify with the characters.

As Ryan, Paulo Costanzo may not have conventional movie-star looks but he has an openness and a regular-guy appeal that make him a compelling lead for this movie. He is matched by the lovely Steph Song as the girl who has made some compromises of her own in her lifetime but who has the intestinal fortitude and good sense to pull herself back from the abyss before she hurls right on over it. JR Bourne could easily have turned his amoral yuppie character into little more than a two-dimensional Waspy villain, but instead he makes him both sad and strangely likable at one and the same time. Finally, Susan Hogan and Tom Butler steal any number of scenes as Ryan's late-blooming, dope-growing parents.

Old-fashioned in its message and theme, yet utterly modern in its style and tone, "Everything's Gone Green" admonishes us in a lighthearted and playful way to heed that long-established warning that money can indeed not buy happiness. It's nice to be reminded of that every once in awhile.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Sleeper Hit , August 5, 2007

By	M. Cole "FilmJunkie" (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ahhh, if only " Everything's Gone Green" had widespread distribution, it would have been the must see indie hit of the year. Green is a drolly funny, somewhat surreal (at times), strange and charming comedy. Worth a look see. Paul Fox (the Director) also has another feature under his belt "The Dark Hours" a Horror Film, also worth a look see.