Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Advance Screening

Taking audiences on a humorous, moving, and intimate journey against an epic backdrop of Earth’s final days, SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD is the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Lorene Scafaria (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist). Set in a too-near future where time at once stands still and is slipping away forever, the writer/director explores what people will do and how they will feel when humanity’s end is near.

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 (Golden Globe Award winner Steve 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 (Academy Award nominee Keira 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.

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SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

opens in theaters

JUNE 22

Rated R

(for  language including sexual references, some drug use and brief violence)

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY