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. The two
misfits meet first when Penny has a rough night and then again when she
belatedly delivers Dodge a lost letter. That letter could alter Dodge's future;
it's from his high-school sweetheart Olivia, the love of his life. When a riot
breaks out around their apartment building, Dodge realizes that he must seek
Olivia out before it's too late while Penny makes the decision to spend her last
days with family in England. Seizing the moment, Dodge promises to help Penny
reach her family if she will provide transport for the two of them in her car
immediately. She agrees, and they escape. On the road together, the unlikely
traveling companions' respective personal journeys accelerate, and their
outlooks - if not the world's - brighten.
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