Jack and Gill’s 40th birthday goes off the rails when a weed-laced dinner kicks in—just as they learn a nuclear missile is en route to California. High and panicked, they must decide how to spend what could be their final night alive.
Acting
Anna Camp's panic spiral is uncomfortably real.
Writing
Dialogue that captures how people actually fight when scared.
Director
Deena Kashper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 2020s 'doomer comedy' wave, where millennial anxiety meets apocalypse-as-metaphor for relationship collapse.
Anna Camp and Justin Bartha improvised significant portions of their marital arguments; director Deena Kashper kept cameras rolling through breaks.
US
