{4.5\/5} “The final mission to save mankind has failed. The 70-mile-wide asteroid known commonly as \u2018Matilda\u2019 is set to collide with Earth in exactly three weeks\u2019 time, and we\u2019ll be bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage of\u00a0our countdown to the end of days along with all your classic rock favorites.”<\/p>\n
An asteroid is going to hit the Earth in 3 weeks and there’s nothing we can do about it. Dodge works in insurance — of course, most people aren’t coming in to work anymore, which means there are some opportunities in upper management. He’s not sure what to do — he doesn’t really want to party with his friends. Then he gets the idea to seek out his high school sweetheart. His neighbour Penny is coming along — Dodge has an idea how to get her on a plane so she can be with her family.<\/p>\n
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World<\/strong> was released in 2012.<\/p>\n What would you do if you knew the world would be destroyed in 3 weeks? The question has been asked before, but this story is worth being told.<\/p>\n It starts out as a comedy and eventually switches to more of a drama — with a romance, of course.<\/p>\n There are lots of great songs on the soundtrack.<\/p>\n Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine<\/strong>) plays Dodge and Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice<\/strong><\/a>) plays Penny. Melanie Lynskey (Win Win<\/strong><\/a>), Rob Corddry (the TV show The Daily Show<\/strong>), and Jim O’Heir (the TV show Parks and Recreation<\/strong><\/a>) have small roles. There’s also a surprise guest star* near the end.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Lorene Scafaria (writer of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n *Martin Sheen as Dodge’s dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “The final mission to save mankind has failed. The 70-mile-wide asteroid known commonly as \u2018Matilda\u2019 is set to collide with Earth in exactly three weeks\u2019 time, and we\u2019ll be bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage of\u00a0our countdown to the end of days along with all your classic rock favorites.” An asteroid is going to hit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,53,8],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}