Directed by Michael Mayer & based on The Hours author Michael Cunninghams novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) & Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals -- & teenage lovers -- in the suburbs of Clevel&, Bobby has become a charismatic but go-nowhere heterosexual slacker, & Jonathan is now living as an openly gay man in New York City, hoping to serve as father to his eccentri