90 mins/1997

The world is going to end at midnight on December 31, 1999.  The news comes as a bit of a shock at first: panic, confusion and outright disbelief.  Then, slowly, terror gives way to acceptance and the concern boils down to a few crucial questions: Where are you going to be at zero hour?  What will you do? Whom will you do it with?

On D-day in Toronto, public services, stores, restaurants and transport have pretty much collapsed.  Patrick is strug gling to get out of a dinner with his folks.  Sandra is trying to get home in time to commit suicide with her lover.  Craig has made a list of sexual experiences he wants to try before the end.  They and others struggle through petty details and minor complications, in order to arrange the perfect end on their last night.
 

Credits:-
Directed by Don McKellar

Producers:
Niv Fichman, Daniel Iron, Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta,

Cast:
Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, David Cronenberg, Genevieve Bujold, Sarah Polley, Arsinee Khanjian

Don McKellar is one of Canada’s leading film and television personalities.  He has worked as a writer and actor in several highly acclaimed films, including Francois Girard’s Thirty Two Short films about Glenn Gould (1993), Bruce McDonald’s Dance Me Outside (1994), Atom Egoyan’s Exotica (1994) and Patricia Rozema’s When Night is Falling (1995).  McKellar also co-wrote Francois Girard’s latest feature, The Red Violin.  He wrote and directed a short film, Blue (1992), which won the Golden Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival.