Seeking a Friend for the End of the World begins with the news that humanity’s last hope of survival—an Armageddon-style effort to stop a 70-mile wide asteroid from crashing into Earth—has failed. After hearing this bulletin, the bored wife of an insurance salesman named Dodge (Steve Carell) leaps out of their car without a word and sprints away. Alone, and with three weeks left to figure out his life before the impending catastrophe, the appropriately named Dodge still goes to the office every day and performs his daily routine with joyless resolve. Elsewhere, people riot and have wild orgies and finally say the things they want to say because, after all, who cares? The End is nigh, and there are no consequences. But Dodge feels he’s wasted his life and now, with barely any time to fix it, he struggles to figure out what he wants to do with his remaining days. In the meantime, Dodge still checks his mailbox, watches television, and doesn’t have the heart to fire his cleaning lady, who doesn’t seem to get that she doesn’t have to clean his apartment anymore. This is when the introspective Dodge meets his spritely neighbor, Penny (Keira Knightley), a […]
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