Additional information for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 22, 2012. The film is being distributed by Focus Features and has not yet been rated. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World has a total running time of 101 minutes.
R
USA
14A
Canada
15
UK
15A
Ireland
NC-16
Singapore
14
Brazil
12
Germany
IIB
Hong Kong
M/12
Portugal
11
Sweden
B15
Mexico
R-13
Philippines
13
Argentina
14
Peru
12
Netherlands
M
Australia
101min
Buscando un amigo para el fin del mundo
Argentina
Buscando un amigo para el fin del mundo
Chile
Buscando un amigo para el fin del mundo
Peru
Buscando un amigo para el fin del mundo
Spain
Търси се приятел за края на света
Bulgaria
Até Que o Fim do Mundo nos Separe
Portugal
Auf der Suche nach einem Freund fürs Ende der Welt
Germany
Cercasi amore per la fine del mondo
Italy
Drusha havera le'sof ha'olam
Israel
Harika pou se gnorisa
Greece
Ilk ve Son Askim
Turkey
Jusqu'à ce que la fin du monde nous sépare
France
Kartu iki pasaulio pabaigos
Lithuania
Míg a világvége el nem választ
Hungary
Procura-se um Amigo para o Fim do Mundo
Brazil
Przyjaciel do konca swiata
Poland
Tražeći ljubav za kraj svijeta
Croatia
Traženje prijatelja za smak sveta
Serbia
June 18, 2012
USA
June 22, 2012
Canada
June 22, 2012
USA
July 05, 2012
Croatia
July 05, 2012
Slovenia
July 12, 2012
Israel
July 12, 2012
Thailand
July 13, 2012
Ireland
July 13, 2012
Poland
July 13, 2012
UK
July 19, 2012
Russia
July 26, 2012
Hungary
August 02, 2012
Singapore
August 08, 2012
France
August 09, 2012
Greece
August 09, 2012
Netherlands
August 10, 2012
Iceland
August 17, 2012
Lithuania
August 20, 2012
Bulgaria
August 23, 2012
Australia
August 24, 2012
Estonia
August 24, 2012
South Africa
August 31, 2012
Brazil
September 06, 2012
Hong Kong
September 14, 2012
Mexico
September 14, 2012
Turkey
September 20, 2012
Argentina
September 20, 2012
Germany
September 27, 2012
Portugal
October 10, 2012
Belgium
November 07, 2012
Philippines
November 09, 2012
Uruguay
November 14, 2012
Sweden
November 16, 2012
Finland
November 29, 2012
Chile
November 29, 2012
Kuwait
November 29, 2012
Peru
November 30, 2012
Taiwan
December 21, 2012
France
December 21, 2012
Taiwan
January 17, 2013
Italy
January 18, 2013
Japan
March 01, 2013
Venezuela
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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.
A broadcast announces that a seventy mile wide asteroid nicknamed 'Matilda' is on a collision course with Earth and that a last-ditch effort to destroy it has failed. The world has three weeks until impact, at which time all of humanity will be wiped out. Dodge Petersen (Steve Carell) and his wife, Linda (Nancy Carell), listen to the announcement (voice of Brad Morris) from their car radio at the side of the road. Seconds later, and without saying a word to him, Linda flees the vehicle.The next day, Dodge returns to a near empty workplace where he sells insurance. While everyone around him has reacted differently to the impending doom by either indulging in drugs or engaging in guilt-free sex, Dodge's life remains the same. Even the absence of his wife cannot shake the stagnant predictability of it. His housekeeper, Elsa (Tonita Castro), continues to show up at his apartment to clean despite Dodge's insistence that there is no further need to do so.After attending a friend's party, Dodge returns home and reminisces about his high school sweetheart, Olivia. He then notices his neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley) crying on the fire escape. She admits to him that she has just ended her relationship with her boyfriend Owen (Adam Brody) because he caused her to miss the last flight to England to see her family. Returning to her apartment, Penny gives Dodge a handful of mail she received for him but kept forgetting to deliver - indirectly telling him that Linda was having an affair.Dodge storms off into the night, guzzling cough syrup and Windex in an attempt to kill himself. The next morning, however, he regains consciousness and finds a note on his sweater reading "Sorry" accompanied by a dog (Aleister) tethered to his foot. He takes Sorry home and opens the rest of his mail where he is surprised to find a letter from Olivia. That night, a riot breaks out nearby. When a brick is thrown through his window, Dodge grabs Sorry and heads to Penny's apartment, urging she and Owen to leave with him. Penny rushes to grab her record collection and she and Owen follow him downstairs and outside to Penny's car...that has been boxed in by other cars. Owen steps out to give Penny guidance but impatiently berates her for what he sees as poor driving. Irritated and with the rioters quickly approaching, Penny slams on the gas, knocking the car in front of her out of the way and abandoning Owen. She tells a bewildered Dodge that Owen will be fine - as we see Owen pick up and throw a rock as he gets swept up in the riot.They drive out of town to avoid the riots, and Dodge tells Penny that, if she can drive him to find his high school sweetheart, he will take her to someone who can fly her to England to see her family. She agrees, however the car runs out of gas and Dodge and Penny are left to walk. Frustrated by the situation, Dodge snaps at Penny for failing to give him his mail in a timely manner, seeing that it would have given him all the time he needed to find Olivia. Feeling guilty for 'ruining his life', Penny hails an oncoming vehicle to take them to their respective destinations. The kindly trucker (William Petersen) picks them up and regales the couple with his life story. During a pit stop, Penny exits the truck and the trucker confronts Dodge on 'how he's going to do it'. He makes light of Dodge's confusion and explain that he's hired an assassin to have himself killed. No sooner has he said this, when a bullet smashes through the front windshield and hits the trucker cleanly in the forehead. Dodge watches as the assassin's car speeds off.Dodge and Penny bury the trucker and decide to take his truck further on...however they neglected to take the car keys out of the man's pocket, so they have to dig him up to get the keys. On the road again, they find a restaurant by the name of Friendsy's which appears to be alive with patrons. Hungry, Dodge and Penny enter and find the place buzzing with optimism and good cheer. Their host, Darcy T.J. Miller), cheerfully takes them to their table where Penny fibs that it's Dodge's birthday. The entire staff celebrates and Penny and Dodge are given inventive drinks and dishes, including a burger with a donut as a bun. After everyone sings the Friendsy's Birthday Song to Dodge, he get birthday kisses from the waitresses. Then so does Penny. As one of the waitresses drops to her knees under the table, Penny and Dodge run from the restaurant as everyone gets even friskier, including Darcy and waitress Katie (Gillian Jacobs).Penny and Dodge make it, laughing, to the truck and, on the spur of the moment, begin to make out and have sex. As they drive off, Dodge regrets his actions with a woman so young (Penny admits she's only 28) but she tells him it was merely end-of-the-world, casual sex. Soon after, they are pulled over by a policeman (Bob Stephenson), only when Dodge insists as Penny would rather try to outrun him. The officer demands to see Penny's license and registration despite her eloquent explanation to their predicament. When she admits that she has none of the required paperwork, the two are locked up in a holding cell at the station. The next morning, they are found by another officer (Jim O'Heir) who sympathetically releases them, cursing his subordinate for taking his quota too seriously. He gives them a lift to Camden where Penny's ex-boyfriend lives. He is named Speck (Derek Luke), a muscular, young military man who shows Penny and Dodge his titanium-walled shelter beneath his house. It is stocked with 6 month's worth of food and enough entertainment to last a lifetime. Speck is confident that his shelter will provide safety to survive the apocalypse for he and a few close friends. Penny notices a satellite phone, and Speck offers to let her call her family. While she is tearfully reunited with her parents and siblings over the phone, Speck bluntly tells Dodge that his company is no longer needed. Penny can stay, but he has to go. They need a healthy, young female to restart the human race.Penny requests from Speck one of his smart cars so that she can drive Dodge to where he needs to go. Speck agrees and makes her promise to return. Penny and Dodge track down Olivia's last known residence but the house is empty. Penny forces their entry and they find the home devoid of any inhabitants but stocked with food. They stay overnight and Penny plays some of her records on an old player they find. She also finds a letter from Olivia to her parents inside a kitchen drawer and sadly presents it to Dodge. Dodge says that the return address is not too far away. The next morning, they drive out to the house where Dodge walks up to the door alone before quickly returning to the car and driving off. Confused, Penny asks what happened. Dodge tells her that it appeared Olivia was home but he simply left her a letter on the doorstep.As they drive away, they nearly collide with a stream of couples and families crossing the road and making their way to a nearby beach. Dodge and Penny take Sorry and follow the assembly to the water's edge where each person is baptized under the hot sun. Standing on the shore, Dodge and Penny kiss, reaffirming their feelings for each other and, as the sun sets, they join the other people as they light bonfires and spend the waning hours playing music and socializing. Dodge teaches Penny how to play the harmonica before they return to the car.They continue on to Somerset County and stop at an isolated house. Dodge brings Penny to the door and they greet Frank (Martin Sheen) who recognizes Dodge and lets them in. He then reveals himself to be Dodge's estranged father, whom Dodge has not seen in twenty-five years. Penny is overwhelmed to meet him. While Penny freshens up before dinner, Dodge and Frank have a mild argument over Frank's absence in Dodge's life. Frank apologizes and, they reconcile.They all share a meal together and catch up on the time lost. After Penny falls asleep, Dodge carefully carries her outside where Frank is waiting in his plane to take her to England. Dodge rests her in the cockpit and gives her his harmonica as a keepsake, gingerly kissing her on the forehead and whispering that she is the love of his life. Dodge then shuts the door, nods to his father, and watches the plane fly away.He returns home to find Elsa in his apartment cleaning and she cheerily greets him. He angrily yells at her, telling her to go home to her family but, after seeing her confusion and despondence, apologizes for his outburst and tells her to forget it. She asks if she will see him the next week and leaves. Dodge turns on the television where the news anchorman (Mark Moses) announces that 'Matilda' is due to arrive prematurely and that only sixteen hours remain until impact. The anchorman thanks his audience for their attention before leaving to go home to his family, a statement that touches Dodge.Dodge goes to Penny's apartment and lies down on the floor, listening to her records before the power goes out. When he gets up, he finds Penny standing in the dark living room and she asks him how he could have left her. He admits that it was a stupid thing to do before they tearfully embrace. Shortly after, they lie in bed and Dodge asks Penny why she didn't go to her family. She tells him that her parents are romantics and will understand why she couldn't leave without Dodge. They talk about how things might have been between them if they'd known each other longer and Penny begins to panic as time grows short. Dodge calmly asks about her childhood and Penny tells him of her siblings and late sister, Patricia, as the first boom of impact sounds. Penny begins to cry and tells Dodge she's scared and wishes they could have saved each other. Dodge assures her that they did and smiles warmly at her. Penny smiles back, unafraid, as the screen fades to white - then black.
Lorene Scafaria
Director(s)
Lorene Scafaria
Writer(s)
Nicole Brown
executive producer
Steve Golin
producer
Joy Gorman
producer
Nathan Kahane
executive producer
Kelli Konop
co-producer
Patty Long
line producer
Steven M. Rales
producer
Mark Roybal
producer
Producer(s)
Jonathan Sadoff
Rob Simonsen
Composer(s)
Radio Announcer
Brad Morris
Dodge
Steve Carell
Linda
Nancy Carell
Anchorman
Mark Moses
Alfred
Roger Aaron Brown
Jeremy
Rob Huebel
Crying Woman
Trisha Gorman
Penny
Keira Knightley
Owen
Adam Brody
Elsa
Tonita Castro
Amy
Leslie Murphy
Diane
Connie Britton
Warren
Rob Corddry
Danny
Kasey Campbell
Karen
Melanie Lynskey
Man #1 / Chip
Vince Grant
Woman #1 / Lacey
Amy Schumer
Roache
Patton Oswalt
Indian Man
Marshall Manesh
Sorry
Aleister
Trucker
William Petersen
Chipper Host / Darcy
T.J. Miller
Waitress / Katie
Gillian Jacobs
Officer Wally Johnson
Bob Stephenson
Cell-Mate
Rene Gube
Cop #2
Jim O'Heir
Speck
Derek Luke
Toilet Guy
Daniel Maurio
Frank
Martin Sheen
Gay Party Guest (uncredited)
Tony Brown
Bikini Girl (uncredited)
Brice Crawford
Kissing Waitress (uncredited)
Ami Haruna
Gay Party Guest (uncredited)
Jake Lucas
Sarah (uncredited)
Laura Perloe
Bikini Girl (uncredited)
Prestin Persson
Speck's Mother (uncredited)
Vivian Smallwood
Friendsy's Customer (uncredited)
Pat O. Smith
Kissing Friendsy's Customer (uncredited)
Lauren K. Solomon
Cyclist (uncredited)
Chris Spinelli
Airplane Pilot (uncredited)
Steve Stafford
Director(s)
Writer(s)
executive producer
Steve Golin
producer
Joy Gorman
producer
Nathan Kahane
executive producer
Kelli Konop
co-producer
Patty Long
line producer
Steven M. Rales
producer
Mark Roybal
producer
Producer(s)
Rob Simonsen
Composer(s)
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