How It Ends

One fine morning in L.A.---as a meteor barreled towards Earth, with impact expected around midnight--programmer Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones, who co-wrote and co-directed) had a list of loose ends to tie up before a friend's apocalypse party. Her episodic day, matter-of-factly spent in the company of an incarnation of her teenage self (Cailee Spaeny), fuels this oddly cheery doomsday farce; with Olivia Wilde, Whitney Cummings, Fred Armisen, Nick Kroll, Finn Wolfhard, Helen Hunt, Bradley Whitford. 82 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.