Home at the End of the World

Home at the End of the World DVD

Bobby and Jonathan have been inseparable since they were teenagers in suburban Ohio. Bobby has suffered many losses for someone so young and is starved for love and affection. Awkward teen Jonathan has a nice family and a particularly wonderful mother Sissy Spacek. The boys not only become as close as brothers but they also experiment sexually. The two lose touch but find each other again in their mid-20s in the early 1980s when Bobby Colin Farrell moves to New York and joins Jonathan Dallas Roberts at the apartment he shares with Clare Robin Wright Penn an aging hippie. Bobby and Clare become lovers however Clare had planned to have a child with Jonathan who is now openly gay and who is still interested in Bobby and to whom Clare used to be attracted. The trio becomes its own unique entity questioning the traditional definitions of family and love and dealing with the complications of their love triangle. Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham who also wrote the screenplay and who was the recipient of the Pulitzer prize this film marks the debut of director Michael Mayer. Erik Smith plays Bobby as a teenager and Harris Allen plays the teenage Jonathan.