Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Keira Knightley and Steve Carell team up for the very first time in their charming new movie Seeking a Friend for the End of the World - a film that promises to be a tonic if you have had enough of big budget blockbusters so far this summer.
This is an end of the world movie like never before as Lorene Scafaria makes her directorial debut with this charming film.
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Scafaria has been a writer and an actress and she is now making the leap into filmmaking for the first time with project, she also penned the screenplay.
It may be her debut feature but she has assembled a great cast as Carell and Knightley are joined by Adam Brody, Mark Moses and Melanie Lynskey
A 70-mile-wide asteroid is en route to Earth, and the last best attempt to counter it has failed. Also failing is the marriage of soft-spoken insurance salesman Dodge (Carell); the breaking news that the world will end in an estimated 21 days cues his wife to leave him on the spot.
Dodge is a man who has always played by the rules of life, while his neighbor Penny (Knightley) is an extroverted woman who hasn’t. From these opposite perspectives, both initially choose to navigate the impending end of the world with blinders on. Dodge declines joining his friends in increasingly reckless behavior, while Penny fixates on her relationship issues with a self-absorbed musician
The two misfits meet first when Penny has a rough night and then again when she belatedly delivers Dodge a lost letter.
That letter could alter Dodge’s future; it’s from his high-school sweetheart Olivia, the love of his life. When a riot breaks out around their apartment building, Dodge realizes that he must seek Olivia out before it’s too late while Penny makes the decision to spend her last days with family in England.
Seizing the moment, Dodge promises to help Penny reach her family if she will provide transport for the two of them in her car immediately. She agrees, and they escape.
On the road together, the unlikely travelling companions’ respective personal journeys accelerate, and their outlooks - if not the world’s - brighten.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is released 13th July
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