2012 · comedy · drama · romance
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Directed by Lorene Scafaria1h 41m2012
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Our read: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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