Everybody Wants Some!!

We are delighted to be able to present the film on an extremely rare 35 mm print.

‘In August 1980, baseball player Jake begins his studies at a university in south-eastern Texas. At first, he is somewhat wary of his new teammates and fellow students, with whom he shares a hall of residence. But he soon befriends the impetuous Roper, the perpetually stoned Willoughby, the womaniser Nesbit and the eloquent Finn. Between baseball, wild parties and girls like Beverly – with whom Jake immediately falls for – his studies can sometimes take a back seat.” (magenta.at)

“Everybody Wants Some!! is unquestionably light-hearted, a study of homosocial behaviour that makes no distinction between sportsmen and bookworms, the cool kids and the losers. The ensemble of American men, who in their Village People-esque pansexual splendour seem timeless yet are already on the descent into the depths of hard working life, makes the year 1980 seem like a dream: For young people back then, it wasn’t about Carter or Reagan, Tehran or Panama, but about ‘My Sharona’ and ‘Pop Muzik’: ‘Living in a disco, forget about the rat race.’ In Everybody Wants Some!!, the disco is called ‘Sound Machine’, and the rat race is still a long way from the glamour of youth.” (Bert Rebhandl, frieze.com, May 2016)