IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by Don McKellar. Stars Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, and Roberta Maxwell.
Last Night follows a varied group of people in Toronto in the final hours before the world ends. We see each of them dealing with their impending doom and taking charge of the things they CAN do in the meantime. This movie absolutely blew me away. It's astonishing and devastating. Every individual's thread is compelling on its own, but it's even better as they begin to intersect and affect each other. It's a bleak story on its surface, yet ultimately deeply life-affirming, examining the purpose of humanity through the lens of the end. The fact that the film is so quiet makes it hit harder than a lot of apocalypse stories. Clearly I need to seek out more of Don McKellar's work, and honestly, the rest of the films that were part of this same "stories about the millennium" series sound fascinating too. This is a movie that I think is going to stay with me for a long time.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 Last Night (1998)
📊 Ranked #118/4157 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 97
beat Frances Ha (#2077 → #2078)
beat Guilty as Sin (#1038 → #1039)
beat The Mummy (#519 → #520)
beat That Thing You Do! (#259 → #260)
beat The Ring (#129 → #130)
lost to Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (held at #64)
lost to My Neighbor Totoro (held at #96)
lost to Little Shop of Horrors (held at #112)
beat Up (#120 → #121)
lost to The History Boys (held at #116)
beat Cloverfield (#118 → #119)
lost to Doubt (held at #117)
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