Cady's Take:

Bobby is the movie's central characte r. He is kind of a lost child: his free-spirited older brother whom he idolizes is killed in a freak accident with a sliding door and when his mother & father pass away years later he is basically adopted by his best friend Jonathan's parents, kindly Ned (Matt Frewer) and understanding Alice (Sissy Spacek). Simply put, Bobby manages to get everyone he meets to fall in love with him.

In the first half hour we learn about Bobby and Jonathon as teenagers. Like many young boys in the early 70's, they smoke pot together, listen to records, hang out in graveyards, and partake in a little bit of sexual experimentation .

Years later when Jonathan's parents retire to Arizona , Bobby (now played by Colin Farrell) goes to stay with Jonathan. They live in the East Village of NYC with Jonathan's best friend, the older free-spirited Clare (Robin Wright Penn).

Clare's in love with Jonathan and wants to bear his child, but Jonathan is gay, Jonathan's in love with Bobby, who falls for Clare, even though the true love of his life in Jonathon.

The three outcasts have a baby together, move to the country and buy a house at the end of the world. This is definitely a tale of a defiantly untraditional family that finds happiness in their unconventional lifestyle.

This movie is not about beginnings but endings , a nd the idea that you can never really predict where you're going to end up. "A Home at the End of the World" has great emotional strength. The cast is outstanding and it has an easy charm and a generally upbeat mood that keep it moving along at a relatively engaging pace. This is not a movie I would watch a second time, but worth the 95 minutes the first time through.

I was not expecting exactly what "A Home at the End of the World" delivers, but I was pleasantly surprised nonetheless. I will come clean right away, however. I do not like Colin Farrell. I know, I know, who doesn't like Colin Farrell? Well, me. I will come clean again and admit that I did like him in this movie. Very much.

Farrell plays Bobby, a boy who loses his family early in life and who sort of adopts a new friend and his friend's family. His friend Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) is gay, and very much in love with Bobby, although he realizes that Bobby's love is not exactly a return of those feelings. Bobby has been abandoned by all those who he loved, and his need to please everyone in concert with his need for constant human contact and affection move him above sexual love. This transcendence is what makes "A Home at the End of the World" so unconventional and Farrell's performance is a wide departure from the roles in which we are accustomed to seeing him play. Farrell's Bobby is quiet, thoughtful, and enigmatic.

This is a movie about one thing, and then it is a movie about another. Yes, it is about Bobby and Jonathan, and then their friend Clare who loved Jonathan and then loved and had a child with Bobby. Underneath, however, "A Home" is about something else altogether. It is about the events that make us who we are and what we do with who we end up being.