When You Finish Saving the World
2022 · Movie · R · 88 min · ★ 5.8 · 64% critics
A mother and her self-absorbed son drift further apart as each looks for connection elsewhere. She throws herself into helping a teen at her shelter, while he awkwardly tries to impress someone at school, exposing how little they understand each other.
Based on When You Finish Saving the World
Also known as Lorsque vous avez fini de sauver le monde
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Details
- Years
- 2022
- Release date
- 2023-01-20
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Critic score
- 64/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (134 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like tense, awkward family dramas about hypocrisy and miscommunication, in the vein of Mid90s or Yes, God, Yes; Not for you if you need likable leads or a big, decisive payoff.
Pros: clear purpose each scene; strong lead performances; honest vision | Cons: unrewarding story; unbearable main characters; subtle ending impact
Themes
- musician
- poem
- narcissism
- shelter
- coming of age
- emotionally distant
- mother son relationship
- social media influencer
Cast & crew
Julianne Moore
as Evelyn
Finn Wolfhard
as Ziggy
Billy Bryk
as Kyle
Alisha Boe
as Lila
Jack Justice
as Jackie
Jay O. Sanders
as Roger
Eléonore Hendricks
as Angie
Catherine Haun
as Cath
Annacheska Brown
as Cyril
Sara Anne
as Becky
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg