
James and Lily, estranged from society, live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion--abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced... (Full plot summary below)
FREE with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
Sorry, we can't find any suggestions at the moment.
James and Lily, estranged from society, live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion--abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced by organic wine and weed--is quickly undermined by the slights of the past, the spark of lingering flirtations and the threat of a locally grown new world order. Balancing tense confrontations with slivers of levity, director Denis Henry Hennelly pinpoints a future where ideology explodes into action in every area.
Leave your thoughts about Goodbye World.
| Screen InternationalMark AdamsDirector Denis Henry Hennelly's film... trades on its self-aware glibness and strong young cast to come up with a film that may be easy to snipe at, but wears its heart on its sleeve, is engagingly performed, beautifully shot and always absorbing. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIn this movie, the world really does end with a whimper. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaIts foremost concerns of personality and ideas ring true. |
| Paste MagazineBrent SimonKind of an incidental apocalyptic drama -- an unusual, distinctively character-rooted hybrid of The Big Chill, The Trigger Effect and Into the Wild. |
| Showbiz JunkiesRebecca MurrayGoodbye World takes a promising premise and dilutes it by centering the action on a group of friends who just aren't all that interesting or engaging. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongObviously, the potential for shifting tones here is great; unfortunately, those tones shift rather erratically. |
| Movie MezzanineChristopher RunyonGoodbye World feigns intelligence from the very first frame...hoping that snappy dialogue and charming performances can allow us to forgive its utter lack of ambition or thought |
| Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFilm 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. |
| Slant MagazineDavid Lee DallasThe tetchy band of thirtysomethings' interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised. |
| New York TimesNicolas RapoldAs these overwritten characters cope and make fresh romantic missteps, the movie cruises obliviously along, littered with glib dialogue and howler developments. |