Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

6.561/10
1970

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Release date

2012-06-22

Country

United States, Malaysia, Singapore

Production

Indian Paintbrush, Focus Features, Mandate Pictures, Anonymous Content, Mandate International

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Adventure

Budget

$10 000 000

Revenue

$9 636 289

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Director

Lorene Scafaria

Actors

Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton, Rob Corddry, Adam Brody, Derek Luke, Martin Sheen, Melanie Lynskey, Nancy Carell, William Petersen
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Scenario

Producer

Steve Golin, Mark Roybal, Steven M. Rales, Joy Gorman Wettels, Nathan Kahane, Nicole Brown

Operator

Tim Orr

Composer

Jonathan Sadoff

Artist

Audition

Jeanne McCarthy, Nicole Abellara Hallman

Editing

Zene Baker
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• 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.