Set on the last day before a worldwide catastrophe will certainly erase life in the world, the comedy “Just how It Ends” is a swiftly strange and cheekily unlikely meditation on apologizing before it is far too late and also reconnecting with your inner kid. Or something like that. Zoe Lister-Jones (who also co-wrote and co-directed the film with Daryl Wein) stars as Liza, a 30-something app developer in Los Angeles that invests the movie strolling to an end-of-the-world celebration in cute however improper heels after her car is taken. Accompanying her on this trip via the roads of Hollywood– where she finds time to face her emotionally far-off daddy (Bradley Whitford); her estranged former BFF (Olivia Wilde); an ex-boyfriend (Lamorne Morris); her mom (Helen Hunt); as well as the love of her life (Logan Marshall-Green)– is Liza’s more youthful self (Cailee Spaeny). Y.S, as Spaeny’s character is recognized, exists to offer insight into missed out on chances, and so on, however mainly for comic wit. Spaeny is definitely charming as a metaphysical construct, but Lister-Jones is pretty pleasurable to spend time with also, in what amounts to a slight however charming philosophical query into the definition of life. Certain, it has to do with two inches deep, but that’s ideal to the layout, which is essentially a collection of vignettes– some foolish, some unexpectedly lovely– in which Liza comes across a cast of doomed but strangely joyful personalities, played by a skilled lineup of stars including Fred Armisen, Whitney Cummings, Charlie Day, Nick Kroll, Colin Hanks, Finn Wolfhard, Bobby Lee, vocalist Sharon Van Etten, Paul Scheer and also, perhaps strangest of all, Pauly Coast. R. Available on various streaming platforms. Consists of crude language throughout, sexual referrals and also drug material.
82 mins.
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