Last Night

Last Night is a 1998 Canadian film by Don McKellar. It was filmed in Toronto.

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1998 - Canadian - Don McKellar - Toronto

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Last Night tells the story of how a variety of characters spending their remaining evening on Earth: the world is to end at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months. ("It's not the end of the world... there's still six hours left.") Several scenes of a glowing sun, which gets progressively larger and brighter, imply that the Earth's sun is about to go supernova.

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Eastern Standard Time - Earth's sun - Supernova

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Some people in the film choose to spend their last evening alone, others with loved ones, others in prayer, and others at public festivities. A power company worker (David Cronenberg) spends the majority of his final day calling up every single one of his customers to reassure them that their electricity will be kept on until the very end. Meanwhile, his wife Sandra Oh prepares to fulfill their suicide pact when she becomes stranded with a depressed widower (Don McKellar) preparing to die while listening to music on his roof, surrounded by mementoes of his recently deceased wife. The widower's best friend particpates in a nearly non-stop sex marathon as he attempts to fulfill every fantasy he has ever had. Sarah Polley appears as a member of a family that has a final meal together, in which the elderly complain that while the young should probably die, senior citizens have lived too much to deserve the apocalypse.

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David Cronenberg - Sandra Oh - Don McKellar - Sarah Polley

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Among its 12 awards, it won the "Award of the Youth" at the Cannes Film Festival, "Best Canadian First Feature Film" at the Toronto International Film Festival, and three Genie Awards: the Claude Jutra Award for Director Don McKellar, and the genies for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Sandra Oh) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Callum Keith Rennie).

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Cannes Film Festival - Toronto International Film Festival - Genie Awards

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