LAST NIGHT
An offbeat end-of-the-world drama for discerning adults.
Should You Watch It?
LAST NIGHT is a strange, slowly unfolding drama about how people choose to live when they believe the world will end at midnight. It does not explain the catastrophe or offer a plan to stop it. Instead, it watches several people face their assumptions about love, family, faith, sex, violence, and death.
The movie finds moral grounding in Patrick’s parents and grandparents, who choose family, good memories, prayer, and self-sacrifice. It also depicts people driven by sexual desire, anarchy, theft, mayhem, and suicide plans. The strongest movement belongs to Patrick and Sandra, whose final hours bring an unexpected experience of connection and love.
This is well suited to adults who appreciate quirky, art-house drama and can engage discerningly with serious content. For family viewing, choose something else.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESIn Toronto, the final six hours of life on earth are unfolding. Patrick, a melancholy loner, shares a Christmas-like dinner with his Christian family before setting out on his own.
He soon meets Sandra, a frightened woman trying to reach her husband across the city. As traffic, vandalism, and social disorder spread, Patrick and Sandra find themselves confronting what they believe about love, death, and the choices that remain before midnight.
Is It Any Good?
Three stars mean LAST NIGHT is worthwhile but uneven. Don McKellar’s unusual film unfolds slowly and offers no clear agenda behind its characters’ motives. Its ensemble cast presents people with distinct worldviews making deliberate choices under extraordinary pressure.
The drama is offbeat, thought-provoking, primarily bittersweet, and sometimes silly. Its stark art-house visual style will not appeal to a wide audience, but the film’s unusual premise gives it room to examine conscience and purpose rather than relying on cartoon action violence, macho heroes, or scientific explanations.
The Worldview
LAST NIGHT presents a mixed worldview. Patrick’s parents offer Christian prayer and try to spread love within their family. Characters with moral grounding choose family, good memories, prayer, civility, courtesy, and self-sacrifice.
Other characters follow humanist, anarchic, or fleshly desires. Craig treats sexual encounters as goals to conquer, while other people respond to the approaching end with partying, theft, mayhem, violence, or plans for suicide. The movie does not present a distinctly Christian answer to the catastrophe, but it does suggest that love and genuine personal connection can overturn the plans people make for themselves.
The film’s central question is how you would live if you knew your life was about to end. Scripture teaches that the timing of the end is not ours to know: “But concerning that day and hour no one knows” (Matthew 24:36). It also calls us to live unto Christ, whatever day we face.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Mixed worldview including depiction of Christian prayers with strong male character exhorting civility, courteousness & self-sacrifice, plus many depictions of humanist, anarchic behaviors; 17 obscenities, 4 profanities, lewd gestures, & some sexual talk; mild violence including vandalism, people turn over car, people overturn bus, man hits man with shovel, threats with gun, & implied murder with depiction of corpse in a pool of blood; depicted fornication, prostitution, implied fornication, propositions for homosexual sex, men kiss, & stripping; rear male nudity, upper female nudity, & upper male nudity; alcohol use; smoking; and, theft, mayhem & discussions & images about
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
When people believe the end is near, what do their choices reveal about what they value most? How should Christians live while waiting for Christ?
Matthew 24:36–44 · Colossians 3:1–4Patrick’s family responds to the crisis with prayer, love, and togetherness. What might it look like for your family to practice those choices during fear or uncertainty?
Philippians 4:6–7 · Romans 12:10The story contrasts genuine love with sexual desire and self-centered goals. How does Scripture describe the difference between love and using another person?
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 · 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5The film raises questions about suicide, murder, and the value of life. Why does Scripture say human life matters, even in suffering and fear?
Genesis 1:27 · Psalm 139:13–16The Final Word
LAST NIGHT is quirky, thoughtful, and morally serious, but its sexual content, profanity, nudity, smoking, and disturbing choices make it unsuitable for children and young teens. Discerning adults may find its questions about love, faith, and mortality worthwhile. For family viewing, begin with.
