Review: 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World'
Steve Carell film opens in movie theaters this weekend.
Chances are, if the world was coming to an end, you already know who you would spend those last moments with. Not everyone is that lucky. There will be a contingent of people, when an extinction-level event is occurring, as in "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World," where an asteroid is hurtling toward earth, that will crawl into their well-worn cocoons, isolating themselves to ponder their regrets and wait alone for the inevitable. In writer/director Lorene Scafaria's lovely debut feature, Dodge (Steve Carell, in finest form) and Penny (Keira Knightley, at once frenetic and luminous) are two such messed-up lonely isolationists...two apartment-dwelling neighbors who stumble into helping each other resolve some of each of their …
