Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) on Netflix
R20121h 41mAdventureComedyDrama
When a mission to stop the asteroid Matilda fails, Earth has three weeks. With his wife gone, Dodge Petersen and his neighbor Penny Lockhart set out to find his high school sweetheart.
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Plot summary
A mission to stop the asteroid Matilda fails, and the world learns it has three weeks left. Linda Petersen leaves her husband Dodge without a word. His downstairs neighbor Penny Lockhart, a Briton whose family is back in England, has just broken up with her boyfriend Owen. Old mail tells Dodge that Olivia Covello, his high school sweetheart, called him the love of her life, and he wants to find her. Penny wants to reach her family. They set off together, since Dodge knows a pilot who might fly Penny home if she helps him look for Olivia.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
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- The scene in which Steve Carell's screen wife, played by his real wife Nancy Carell, leaves him was filmed on their actual 17th wedding anniversary. Director Lorene Scafaria had a cake brought in and the crew sang Happy Anniversary to the couple between takes.
- This was the first movie Steve Carell made after wrapping his seven-year run on the U.S. sitcom The Office.
