Zhiguo Guan, a retired geologist, has been communicating with his four children through his wife for years. Although he loves them, he has a difficult time expressing it, as he sits in his home. After his wife died, Guan suddenly realized the distance between himself and his children.[5] He expects to finally see his children at a family reunion, however, none of them are able to attend.[6] He then travels to different part of the country alone to visit his "smug" and "grown" children. There are many funny, tearful stories happened during this experience.[5]
Zhiguo Guan first visits his little son, Hao Guan, who is a photographer in Tianjin. He arrives at his son's studio and finds there is no one in the studio. He waits downstair for a day, but still, nobody appears. It later turns out that Hao Guan travels to Tibet and encounters snow slides. He is in the hospital getting treatments.
Zhiguo Guan then travelss to Hangzhou to visit his big daughter, Qin Guan. She divorces with her husbands and Zhiguo Guan finds out this fact only until this visit.
Next, Zhiguo Guan travelss to Shanghai to visit his big son, Quan Guan. Quan Guan resigns from his original job and decides to start up a business with his friends. He lives with his friends in small apartments. He has not told Zhiguo Guan, his father about any of these facts.
Zhiguo Guan travels to Macau to visit his youngest daughter, Chu Guan. Zhiguo Guan thinks his youngest daughter is a ballet dancer, but it turns out that Chu Guan works as a dummy ballet doll at a restaurant.
All of Zhiguo Guan's children were hiding their true lives from their father, just like the title of the movie, Everybody's Fine. But at the end of the movie, all the children comes home at Chinese New Year and the family finally reunites.
Production
Ma Ke, a producer of the film, worked with William Kong to gain an adaption copyright license to make the Chinese version of the Italian film.[7]
Inspiration
Ma Ke stated that after watching the original Italian film, he aimed to create a Chinese version. He believed that the plotline of the film would be successful in China.[7]
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