Steve Carell plays his usual loveable nice guy that he seems to be typecast in but plays so well.

To avoid spoiling the ending, I wont go any further but there are several laughs as well as several incredibly intense moments that that will just knock you back. Since Penny has a car, they make a pact that if Penny can get Dodge to Olivia, he will take her to a friend who has a plane and can take her to her family.Īs you can expect, not everything goes as planned. Included in this pile is a letter from Olivia dates three months prior.

We learn that Penny has been getting bits of Dodge’s mail for years, which she finally returns to him. By some strange stroke of fate, he befriends Penny (Keira Knightly), a serial monogomist, vinyl collector and extremely heavy sleeper, whom has broken up with her boyfriend and has missed the last plane out of America to spend her last few weeks with her family. While going through old boxes, he finds a picture of Olivia, the one that got away. His wife has run off and he is left to spend his last three weeks alone.

Steve Carell plays Dodge, an insurance salesman who has just found out that the world will end by asteroid in exactly three weeks. Is that person you’re with the person you want to spend the remainder of your life with or would you go find the one that got away? Seeking a Friend for the End of the World provokes these thoughts. You have to ask yourself who you would spend that last bit of time with, what you would do with that time, what you would see. It’s hard to imagine how one would react to the news of the impending apocalypse. Ann hale reviews the end of the world comedy…

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