A Home at the end of the World

Release Date: 5th November 2004
Distributor: TBC
Certificate: 15
Starring: Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Wright Penn, Sissy Spacek
Director: Michael Mayer
Running Time: 96 mins

A Home at the End of the World, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours) received glowing reviews in 1990. The story chronicles the lives of Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts), two childhood friends who meet as students in a suburban Ohio school. From the moment they meet they are inseparable. For Jonathan, the unconventional Bobby is a connection to a larger world; while for Bobby, Jonathan’s family, and in particular Jonathan’s mother, Alice (Sissy Spacek) gives the family the type of stability that he hasn’t known. As they grow up, the boys grow apart only to reunite in New York where, together with the free-spirited Clare, they invent a new kind of family.

It is a heartfelt examination of modern relationships, the definition of family and the need to create your own happiness.