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  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter, he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst do...

Directed By: Abel Ferrara

Written By: Abel Ferrara

  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 22 m

4:44 Last Day on Earth

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter, he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst do...

Directed By: Abel Ferrara

Written By: Abel Ferrara

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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
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75
Mar 23, 2012
If the end of the world was just hours away, would New Yorkers still be able to get takeout? Yes, if Abel Ferrara's mind-bending 4:44 Last Day on Earth is any indication.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
65
Mar 23, 2012
The picture is also weirdly compelling, maybe most notably for the way Dafoe's character - who is, in this respect, perhaps a stand-in for the Bronx-born Ferrara - seems to be grappling less with the idea that the world is ending than that the city is ending.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW

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60
Mar 22, 2012
Dafoe, who also starred in Ferrara's woefully underseen "Go Go Tales," brings a quiet grace to his role, while Leigh has a rough-hewn emotional directness.
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50
Apr 20, 2012
The movie is probably best appreciated by devotees of the cult director, who has made some good films and some interesting ones (and some that are both): "King of New York," "Bad Lieutenant," "The Addiction." "4:44" isn't quite in that company.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 21, 2012
One of Dafoe's deadbeat friends observes, ''The world's been ending ever since it started, man,'' and you may think the same thing about this movie.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 17, 2012
It's only natural that Abel Ferrara's vision of the end of the world should take corporeal form as a quasi-autobiographical hangout movie.
By Jaime N. Christley FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 20, 2012
Let's not make 4:44 Last Day on Earth sound cooler than it is. Compared with Lars von Trier's histrionically doomed "Melancholia," the film lacks any serious attempt to grapple with mortality.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Fabula, Funny Balloons, Wild Bunch, Bullet Pictures, Off Hollywood Pictures
Release Date Mar 23, 2012
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating R
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cahiers du Cinéma
• 1 Nomination

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