Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
Director: Michael Sucsy, Roadshow Entertainment.
Cast: Lucas Jade Zumann, Angourie Rice, Debby Ryan, Justice Smith.
Based on the 2012 novel by David Levithan, Every Day is an American romantic fantasy drama that’s surprisingly original in the genre of a whimsical incompatible love story.
It tells the tale of 16-year-old Rhiannon (Rice), falling in love with a mysterious soul named ‘A’, who wakes each morning in a different body. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes its toll.
With the feeling of being an unmatched connection uppermost, both Rhiannon and ‘A’ work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. It’s not long before Rhiannon and ‘A’ face the hardest decision either has ever had to make.
Rhiannon has fallen head over heels for a character that is … a spirit. Until the clock strikes midnight, it takes over the mind and body of a different local teenager every day. Once the magical hour comes, the spirit moves on to somebody else.
It has the ability to occupy the body of a boy or a girl of any shape, size or ethnicity.
Whether male or female, the spirit is always ‘kind, thoughtful, sharp, funny, observant and compassionate’.
You can rightly say that Every Day is a vastly copied movie, as it reverberates scenarios from many other fanciful love stories. You see ‘A’ waking up each morning in the body of a different person, welcoming in a new day, wondering who he is today. Each day is a variation of the one before. Even setting the alarm is reminiscent of Groundhog Day.
