SXSW Kicks Off with Mud Wrestling and Booze in Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some’

11 March 2016 9:45 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

SXSW Film opened with the world premiere of Everybody Wants Some on Friday night, complete with mud wrestling, booze and disco. That was just onscreen at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, but the antics inside the auditorium also got a little wild.

The audience was laughing and hooting throughout the Richard Linklater comedy, centered around a 1980 college baseball team, often over sips of beer (served at the laidback concession stand).

Festival director Janet Pierson introduced the film, reminding the crowd of the director’s Texas roots. Linklater set the evening’s screwball tone by pretending that the president (who had given a SXSW keynote speech earlier on Friday afternoon) had planned on attending. Then, on a projector screen, he showed a handwritten note that was supposedly from Obama, with scribbling in red ink: “I had a blast in college in 1980! Rock on – Barry.”

At the film’s after-party at the swanky South Congress Hotel, »

- Ramin Setoodeh

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