Everything Put Together

This film is touching, heartbreaking, and if you're pregnant or have recently had a child, not for you. Radha Mitchell does an outstanding job. Megan Mullally steals the scenes in which she appears, as she does in everything she is in.... Full review

Everything Put Together" is an eerie, American nightmare with gritty realism.....Radha Mitchell is captivating as Angie, a normal woman whose world is shattered following the death of her child.....Directed by Marc Forster as the precursor to the 2001 award winning Monster's Ball , the film is an exploration of human fallibility and bereavement.....After building up oodles of anxiety and nervousness, the few remaining scenes seem much too normal and dismissive.... ... Full Review

The film's perfect ending brings this point home with a flourish. Forster cleverly draws in his audience with these opening scenes, never quite giving away his game. ... Full Review

Angie (Radha Mitchell) seems almost offensively happy. Such a premise seems doomed to melodrama or platitudes, but director Marc Forster, whose Monster's Ball is upcoming, avoids both, relying on poignant details and subtle cutting. ... Full Review

Everything Put Together is about Angie, a pregnant suburban housewife (played pretty decently by Radha Mitchell) who hangs around a lot of other pregnant suburban housewives. Honestly, Forster's blatant cribbing of angles from straight-to-USA Up All Night movies wouldn't be so bad, if the script wasn't so goddamn boring. ... Full Review

The horror in Everything Put Together is based on friends who aren't very nice. Forster shoots on digital video, and uses its claustrophobic, sterile nature to further discomfort us. ... Full Review

Why does an established director sign up for a blockbuster sequel?Is it the money?The guarantee of success?The chance to put one's stamp on an already well-known property? ... Full Article

"Everything Put Together" is a dark and disquieting psychological tale about a woman forced into a downward spiral after the death of her first child. ... Full Article

Connect to Facebook/Twitter, recommend via email and much more. What happens when the American dream falls apart? That is a subject of "Everything Put Together" from Gus Entertainment, distributed by Ventura. ... Full Article

According to Marc Forster, this was the movie that made his career, paving the way for the Swiss-born filmmaker to direct "Monster's Ball". Shot on digital video in a couple of weeks for less than $10,000, "Everything Put Together" is... ... Full Article

Racked with cold sweats and panic attacks, Marc Forster 's digital-video feature Everything Put Together is at once venturesome and reductive. Its primary emotion is grief, and its defining experience profound alienation-both of which the movie sees as raw material... ... Full Article

An idyllic suburban life has never been portrayed to more queasy effect than in Marc Forster's Everything Put Together . Angie (Radha Mitchell, High Art ) seems to have it all--a loving husband, a close circle of friends, a baby... ... Full Article