Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Short description
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World takes place in the weeks before an asteroid is expected to strike Earth. Dodge's wife leaves him as panic spreads, and he decides to set out on a road trip to find Olivia, a high-school girlfriend he has not seen in about twenty-five years. His neighbor Penny, who takes a very different approach to the situation, ends up traveling with him, and their journey brings the two mismatched companions closer together as they meet various people along the way.
Lorene Scafaria wrote and directed the film, her first feature as director; she went on to make The Meddler and Hustlers. Steve Carell stars as Dodge, with Keira Knightley as Penny. Connie Britton, Rob Corddry, Adam Brody and Derek Luke are among the supporting cast.
The film was released in June 2012 and runs 101 minutes. Made for about 10 million dollars, it took in roughly the same amount worldwide. On IMDb it holds a 6.6 rating from over 2,300 votes, while the critics' score stands at 6.1 from 176 reviews, so audiences have rated it slightly higher than reviewers did.
What's left behind the scenes
- The story of an “unexpected romance blossoming between two strangers during an impromptu journey” is a familiar development for director Lorene Scafaria, as if it were the opening scene of her previous screenplay, “Five Minutes to Live” (2008).
- There are no ocean beaches at the foot of cliffs like the one Penny and Dodge visited in the New Jersey/Delaware region. The film was supposedly to be shot on the East Coast of the USA, but it is clearly filmed in California.
- The film marked Lorene Scafaria's directorial debut.
- Filming began in May 2011 in Los Angeles shortly before the end of the world predicted by American sect leader Harold Camping, scheduled for May 21st.
- When the killer shot through the windshield, it remained with a bullet hole and cracks around it. Later in the film, the same truck is shown, but the windshield is without cracks, as good as new.
- Dodge pulls out the vinyl album "Scott," Scott Walker's first solo album. He takes the record out and puts it on the player, and the song "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" begins to play. This recording is by "The Walker Brothers," and it wasn't on the album that was being shown previously.
- As Dodge listens to the recording, the power goes out, and the sound of the recording can be heard slowing down. On the receiver shown in the film, the sound should have cut out immediately.
- During the dialogue between Dodge and Penny, when they are sitting back-to-back in jail, their heads change position, especially Dodge's, either between the bars or directly in line with them.
- When Dodge and Penny walk up to Olivia's house, Penny breaks a window. They then enter the house, and it is visible that the window in the background is not broken. A few seconds later, the window in the frame is broken again.
- When Dodge and Penny get into the car that Speck lent them, the radio is tuned to 107.2 – US radio stations are divided into 200kHz bands and are located on odd frequencies. The correct frequency would have been 107.1 or 107.3.
- The Cessna airplane that Father Dodge is flying in is not designed for flights long enough to take Penny to the United Kingdom.
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