Synopsis
When a mysterious cyber-attack cripples civilization, a group of old college friends and lovers retreat to a remote country cabin, where they must cope with an uncertain future while navigating the minefield of their shared past.
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Cast
- Caroline DhavernasBecky
- Adrian GrenierJames
- Ben McKenzieNick
- Gaby HoffmannLaura
- Mark WebberBenji
- Kerry BishéLily
- Kid CudiLev
- Mckenna GraceHannah
- Julie DretzinClaire
- Remy NozikAriel
Recommendations
- 50
Slant Magazine
The tetchy band of thirtysomethings' interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised. - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Film buffs will see Goodbye World as a sort of “Trigger Effect” meets “Return of the Secaucus Seven” — growing up, learning to look at the world through more jaded adult eyes as the world ends. - 50
Portland Oregonian
Goodbye World will remind you more of "Gilligan's Island" than "Lost." - 40
Village Voice
The soapy material is at odds with the largely distant catastrophe, which often feels too abstract to be a real threat. - 40
The Dissolve
This film can’t decide whether it’s a Noah Baumbach-ian character study or an episode of NBC’s Revolution. - 40
New York Daily News
Apocalyptic visions are no longer enough to shock us. By this point, if you want to imagine the end of the world, you really need to say something new about it. - 40
Los Angeles Times
An unconvincing, poorly conceived hybrid of end-of-the-world thriller and relationship drama. - 38
RogerEbert.com
I am probably indulging in a rather obnoxious form of criticism-as-parlor-game-psychotherapy by positing that each of the three main white male characters in director Denis Henry Hennelly's Goodbye World is meant to represent a facet of the director himself. Unfortunately, such activity is about all the movie is any good for.
