A Home at the End of the World (film)

A Home at the End of the World
Original film poster
Directed by	Michael Mayer
Produced by	Tom Hulce John Hart Pamela Koffler Katie Roumel Jeffrey Sharp Christine Vachon John Wells
Written by	Michael Cunningham Based on his novel
Starring	Colin Farrell Robin Wright Penn Dallas Roberts Sissy Spacek
Music by	Duncan Sheik
Cinematography	Enrique Chediak
Edited by	Andrew Marcus Lee Percy
Distributed by	Warner Independent Pictures
Release date	July 23, 2004
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6.5 million
Box office	$1,548,955 (worldwide)

A Home at the End of the World is a 2004 drama film directed by Michael Mayer. The screenplay by Michael Cunningham was adapted from his 1990 novel of the same title.

Bobby Morrow's life in suburban Cleveland has been tinged with tragedy since he was a young boy, losing first his beloved older brother to a freak accident, then his mother to illness, and finally his father. As a rebellious teenager, he meets the conservative and gawky Jonathan Glover in high school, and he becomes a regular visitor to the Glover home, where he introduces his friend - and his mother Alice - to marijuana and the music of Laura Nyro. Jonathan, who is slowly coming out as a homosexual, initiates Bobby into adolescent mutual masturbation during their frequent sleepovers. When Alice catches them both masturbating in a car, Jonathan, embarrassed, tells Bobby he is going to leave as soon as he finishes high school. Alice teaches Bobby how to bake, unintentionally setting him on a career path that eventually takes him to New York City, where Jonathan is sharing a colorful East Village apartment with bohemian Clare. Bobby moves in, and the three create their own household.

Although Jonathan is openly gay and highly promiscuous, he is deeply committed to Clare and the two have tentatively planned to have a baby. Clare seduces and starts a relationship with Bobby, and she eventually becomes pregnant by him. Their romance occasionally is disrupted by sparks of jealousy between the two men until Jonathan, tired of being the third wheel, disappears without warning. He re-enters their lives when his father Ned dies and Bobby and Clare travel to Phoenix, Arizona for the services. The three take Ned's car back east with them, and they impulsively decide to buy a house near , where Bobby and Jonathan open and operate a cafe while Clare raises her daughter.