Last Night (1999)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Nov 5, 1999

Running Time: 93 mins.

Country Of Origin: Canada

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, Robin Gammell, Roberta Maxwell, Tracy Wright, Michael McMurty, Charmion King

director: Don McKellar

If you knew the world was going to end, how would you spend your last night? Craig wants to go out with a bang -- having sex with as many people as he can in one night. Gas company employee Duncan wants to reassure his loyal cutomers that there will be gas servive up until the very end. Wise-guy bachelor Patrick plans to spend his alone, that is until he runs into Sandra, whose car has broken down and needs desperately to get back home to her husband before midnight. And Jennifer plans to party like there's no tomorrow -- because there isn't.

The world's going to end in six hours. If you're not one of those trying to rescue the masses a la Bruce Willis in "Armageddon" or Robert Duvall in "Deep Impact," what do you do? If you're simply a human being resigned to the fact that life as we know it will stop at the stroke of midnight, how would you spend your last few moments? Doing what, and with whom?

That's the proposition of director/writer/co-star Don McKellar's otherworldly "Last Night." With a plaintive air of matter-of-fact…