A Home at the End of the World

Starring:Harris Allan, Jeff J.J. Authors, Andrew Chalmers, Joshua Close, Wendy Crewson, Ryan Donowho, Colin Farrell, Matt Frewer, Quancetia Hamilton, Ron Lea, Lisa Merchant, Barna Moricz, Virginia Reh, Shawn Roberts (II), Dallas Roberts, Erik Smith (IV), Sissy Spacek, Asia Vieira, Robin Wright Penn
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Colin Farrell takes a break from action flicks (S.W.A.T., Alexander) to make A Home at the End of the World, an intimate film based on a novel by Michael Cunningham (author of The Hours). As a boy, Bobby (played as an adult by Farrell) loses both parents and his beloved older brother, ending up more-or-less adopted by the family of his best friend, Jonathan (played as an adult by Dallas Roberts). Jonathan's feelings for Bobby go beyond friendship; Bobby is open to the possibilities. Bobby follows Jonathan to New York and falls into a relationship with Clare (Robin Wright Penn, The Princess Bride). The three form an alternative family, move out to the country, and discover that even alternative families have their dysfunctions. Bobby is so innocent and open he sometimes seems like a pansexual Forrest Gump, but Roberts, Wright Penn, and Sissy Spacek give rich performances. --Bret Fetzer
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends. The film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the question is: can they navigate the unusual triangle they've created and hold their friendship together?

DVD Features:
Featurette:The Journey Home: behind-the-scenes featurette
Theatrical Trailer

Average customer rating:

hit the delete
A must have
An emotional rollercoaster
Colin's different role
Pan-rated. Television movie of the week.

A Home at the End of the World
Starring: Harris Allan , Jeff J.J. Authors , Andrew Chalmers , Joshua Close , and Wendy Crewson
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Release Date: 2004-11-02

Amazon.com

Colin Farrell takes a break from action flicks (S.W.A.T., Alexander) to make A Home at the End of the World, an intimate film based on a novel by Michael Cunningham (author of The Hours). As a boy, Bobby (played as an adult by Farrell) loses both parents and his beloved older brother, ending up more-or-less adopted by the family of his best friend, Jonathan (played as an adult by Dallas Roberts). Jonathan's feelings for Bobby go beyond friendship; Bobby is open to the possibilities. Bobby follows Jonathan to New York and falls into a relationship with Clare (Robin Wright Penn, The Princess Bride). The three form an alternative family, move out to the country, and discover that even alternative families have their dysfunctions. Bobby is so innocent and open he sometimes seems like a pansexual Forrest Gump, but Roberts, Wright Penn, and Sissy Spacek give rich performances. --Bret Fetzer

Description

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends. The film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the question is: can they navigate the unusual triangle they've created and hold their friendship together?

DVD Features:
Featurette:The Journey Home: behind-the-scenes featurette
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

hit the delete.......2007-01-25

I was suckered into watching this horrible film because on the DVD cover Roger Ebert described it as "one of the best films of the year." I could not disagree more; after watching it I was still searching for "a plot at the end of the film." What plot there is I found entirely unbelievable. Bobby Powell grew up smoking pot, which he introduces to his high school friend Jonathan, and to Jonathan's mother Alice. He also shared sex with Jonathan and an erotic flirtation with Alice. When Jonathan and Bobby meet years later as adults, Bobby fathers a child with Clare, Jonathan's live-in friend with purple hair. Bobby claims, "I just want everyone to be happy." The "family" of four moves to Woodstock where they open a cafe. But did we not learn from that generation, if not from our HIV generation, that so-called free love, sex and drugs are very expensive? Only in a Hollywood movie could such a bizarre picture be portrayed as idyllic.

A must have.......2006-11-21

I just love the story this movie delievers and have watched over and over. Colin Farrell just melts your heart in this movie and you just can't help but fall in love with that character. Sissy Spacek was great as well, you never think of her in such a light hearted role. Definately worth the buy.

An emotional rollercoaster.......2006-10-26

This movie touches on all senses. The story is about more than just three people. In touches on circumstances, friendship, and life. What are we here for and how should we approach life. It's simple to think we are just on some ride that will eventually end. The message is simple enjoy what you have...and be satisfied with what your given.

Colin's different role.......2006-10-01

This movie is a wonderful sleeper. I loved how this movie was portrayed and what love has endured to different types of relationships. The actors were perfect for thier roles and portrayed very well. It was very nice to see Colin Farrell in this type of role and feeling very comfortable with the role that he is in. Too bad we didn't see more of him in this movie. He is a great actor!!

Pan-rated. Television movie of the week. .......2006-07-06

There is an old saying, if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. But I feel compelled to critique this film, partly because I really liked what I think it was trying to say... Follow your heart, not what's necessarily popular, follow a Bohemian lifestyle if that what makes you happy. O.K.
This film instead comes across as one produced by a major corporation to get us all thinking about heading back home to the suburbs. Because really what it's saying is even if you have all the idealism in the world, it will only land you in a ghost of a town like Woodstock, N.Y., full of self doubt, and hypocritical trappings.

First of all the acting was not bad, I have no issues with the acting. In fact along with the other fine actors in this film, Colin Farrell should be angry. Their true abilities in developing characterization seem to be written, directed, and edited right out of this film. There is little or no subjective viewpoint from these characters lives. The viewer is left on the outside looking in, wondering where these characters are coming from, or what they are motivated by. This film forces us to assume everything in order to believe anything, without dramatizing or exemplifying why these characters feel the way they do. The effect is clear, as the screen-writer and director have apparently anesthetized these characters into poseurs and masked sterotypes; the only thing left to be certain, the only thing that can be derived, is that they truly do believe in hair color, haircuts, and one-night stands.

"A home at the end of the world," wants us to believe it's making a liberal statement, wants us to swallow the whole enchilida. By using home as a metaphor and a terminal disease to create sympathy for itself, what this film really does is lead us down the road with good intentions to a home decorated in bad taste.

A Home At The End Of The World [DVD] Colin Farrell

Average customer rating:

Great moving movie about love and friendship

A Home At The End Of The World [DVD] Colin Farrell
Director: Michael Mayer
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Product Description

From The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Of The Hours

Customer Reviews:

Great moving movie about love and friendship.......2007-03-14

First, Collin Farrel looks adorable in this movie, after that, the movie is amazing because of the good actors, the script, and the proof that friendship and real love survive the barrier of time, sex and all odds. it's the story of two guys who have been friends since childhood, one of them suffered the early lost of his beloved and admired older brother in a shocking accident in front of his eyes, this kid is a free soul, a truly love giver to all the ones around him. The friendship of this two guys turns into a 3 some with a woman when they grow up but this is not reason for jealous or less love between them, she loves both of them too and understands that they can't live separate to be happy. Tearful ending

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Culture clash & coming of age in Israel

Turn Left at the End of the World
Starring: Jean Benguigui , Efrat Aviv , Aure Atika , Marian Wright Edelman , and Parmeet Sethi
Director: Avi Nesher
Manufacturer: Sisu Home Ent.
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ASIN: B000RJO5CS
Release Date: 2007-07-24

Customer Reviews:

Culture clash & coming of age in Israel.......2007-06-12

I saw the movie in the theatre a couple of years ago and enjoyed it. To be fair, the movie is more sexually explicit than it needs to be to tell its story, then again that is not a negative for some viewers.

It tells a good story of discrimination between two groups, the Moroccan Jews and the Indian Jews in a tiny town in the desert. It is also about the friendship between two teen-aged girls, Sarah (Indian) and Nicole (Moroccan) in that town. The girls become fast friends despite their differences in personality and their different ethnic backgrounds.

We get the story of a labor dispute at the only employer for both the Moroccans and Indians, and how each group deals with it - the differences separating the two communities, despite their common circumstances, how they try to work together, and again are torn apart.

There is marital infidelity and sexual awakening among both the girls and the boys, how they cope with it, and the emptiness of some of their solutions.

It ends up being both funny and redemptive.

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