Set in a too-near future, two neighbors, Dodge and Penny, react in their own unique ways to the announcement that a 70-mile-wide asteroid is en route to the Earth. He wants to return to his first love. She just wants to get back to her family. As the unlikely companions' respective journeys converge, their outlooks -- if not the world's -- brighten in surprising and hilarious ways. Steve Carell and Keira Knightley leads, opposite Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Derek Luke, Melanie Lynskey, and William Petersen. Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria. Produced by Steve Golin, Joy Gorman Wettels, Steven Rales and Mark Roybal; Executive Producers: Nathan Kahane and Nicole Brown. an Anonymous Content production for Focus Features, Mandate Pictures and Indian Paintbrush. "For Joe and Pat".