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Last Night

  • 19981998
  • 14A14A
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Sandra Oh in Last Night (1998)
 	A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.
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A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
9.8K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
21,679
1,269
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    • Director
      • Don McKellar
    • Writer
      • Don McKellar
    • Stars
      • Don McKellar
      • Sandra Oh
      • Roberta Maxwell
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Don McKellar
    • Writer
      • Don McKellar
    • Stars
      • Don McKellar
      • Sandra Oh
      • Roberta Maxwell
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    • 155User reviews
    • 58Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
    • Awards
      • 12 wins & 22 nominations

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    Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    • Patrick Wheeler
    Sandra Oh
    Sandra Oh
    • Sandra
    Roberta Maxwell
    Roberta Maxwell
    • Mrs. Wheeler
    Robin Gammell
    Robin Gammell
    • Mr. Wheeler
    Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley
    • Jennifer Wheeler
    Trent McMullen
    • Alex
    Charmion King
    • Grandmother
    Jessica Booker
    • Rose
    David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    • Duncan
    Tracy Wright
    Tracy Wright
    • Donna
    Callum Keith Rennie
    Callum Keith Rennie
    • Craig Zwiller
    Karen Glave
    Karen Glave
    • Lily
    Arsinée Khanjian
    Arsinée Khanjian
    • Streetcar Mother
    Chandey Michaels
    Chandey Michaels
    • Streetcar Daughter
    • (as Chandra Muszka)
    Geneviève Bujold
    Geneviève Bujold
    • Mrs. Carlton
    Bryan Renfro
    Bryan Renfro
    • Angry Driver
    • (as Brian Renfro)
    François Girard
    François Girard
    • Wild Guy #1
    Daniel Iron
    Daniel Iron
    • Wild Guy #2
    • Director
      • Don McKellar
    • Writer
      • Don McKellar
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    • Trivia
      This film was a result of director Don McKellar's invitation to participate in a challenge to make a movie about the imminent Millennium. Instead of making a movie that he felt might date itself too quickly, he opted to make it about the end of the world rather than just the end of the Millennium.
    • Goofs
      In the early moments of the movie, when the car's up on it's bumper against the pole, the girl puts her keys in the door to unlock it and when the door opens, the bell goes off, to alert that the keys are in the ignition, or that the lights are on. Neither is true.
    • Quotes

      Rose: I don't give a damn. People are always saying 'The children. Pity the children'. I'm tired of the children. They haven't lived, given birth, watch their friends die. I have invested 80 years in this life. The children don't know what they're missing.

    • Crazy credits
      Special thanks to the director's exploited friends.
    • Connections
      Featured in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All
      Written by Tony Macaulay

      Performed by The The 5th Dimension (as 5th Dimension)

      Courtesy of Polygram Music Publishing Ltd.

      Reproduced courtesy of Arista Records Inc. and BMG Music Canada Inc.

    User reviews155

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    Top review
    10/10
    Apocalypse on a human scale
    The world is going to end at midnight; it's six pm now. The impending catastrophe has been known about for months but nothing can be done about it.

    Government has been wound down. There's a certain amount of mayhem, looting, and bloodshed in the streets, but most of that ended weeks ago; now people are just quietly resigned. The nature of the disaster is never specified or even mentioned, but cleverly hinted at. Sooner or later you'll suddenly realise what it must be to do with, and when you do it's a breath-catching moment. Once you notice this, the closest thing the film has to a big special effect, it becomes increasingly appalling as time goes on.

    There are to be no last-minute attempts to save the earth. They were known to be futile before the film begins. Instead, people calmly make preparations for their last night alive. It's a bit like wanting to do something special for your birthday. Craig (Callum Keith Rennie) is living out the four-letter answer most people would give if asked 'What would you do if the world was about to end' - as he has been, methodically and systematically, for the past few weeks. Sandra (Sandra Oh) is trying to get across the chaotic city to her beloved husband. Patrick (Don McKellar, who also wrote and directed, brilliantly) attends a last family meal and plans a quiet evening alone with a Pete Seeger record. Almost everyone else is heading downtown for the big end of the world party.

    Flashes of black humour help make things bearable, but I can't convey how genuinely chilling and terribly moving the film becomes before the end. Pre-millennium there were a handful of end-of-the-world films, most based around big-budget special effects. For a grumpy misanthropist such as myself, who officially couldn't care if the world was to end, even a blockbuster disaster movie like Deep Impact was a salutary experience, making me realise that I really, really don't mean that, and that for all its travails and miseries life is precious. But by excluding special effects and scientific explanations, and precluding the possibility of averting the end, and focusing entirely on the human, Last Night is far, far better and left me drained and devastated.

    I almost prefaced these remarks with a 'Don't watch this alone' but decided, nah, other people can be a pain when you're trying to watch a film. But if you watch it alone and late at night as I did, be warned that after the end you may feel a strong urge to make contact with one of those annoying other people, at 2 in the morning, a friend, a relative, your milkman, anyone.

    But watch this you must, for it's a great cinematic work of art.
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    • Adrian Sweeney
    • Nov 18, 2005

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    • What caused the "End" of the world in this movie
    • Aren't people remarkably calm about the world ending in this movie?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1998 (Canada)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • France
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Minuit
    • Filming locations
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Rhombus Media
      • Téléfilm Canada
      • La Sept-Arte
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $591,165
    • Gross worldwide
      • $591,165
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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