A Home at the End of the World

Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals — and teenage lovers — in the suburbs of Cleveland, Bobby has become a charismatic but go-nowhere heterosexual slacker, and Jonathan is now living as an openly gay man in New York City, hoping to serve as father to his eccentric roommate Clare's (Robin Wright Penn) child. When Bobby impulsively moves to the city to be closer to his former friend, their bonds are tested sooner than anyone would have thought, when he falls for Clare, and, in doing so, effectively eliminates what would have been Jonathan's position in the baby's life. Despite the tension, the trio becomes a family unit among themselves, and ultimately move to Jonathan's mother's (Sissy Spacek) upstate New York home, where she's having her own relationship troubles with Jonathan's father (Matt Frewer). — Tracie Cooper