' A Home At The End Of The World' is a romantic melodrama of a threesome, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author for the novel 'Hours'.

The film begins in suburban Ohio in 1967. Bobby Morrow (Collin Farrell) as a nine young boy has lost his older brother he idolized and later both parents. His high school friend Jonathan Glover( Dallas Roberts) is the only one he's got. After Bobby's father died, Jonathan's mother Alice( Sissy Spacek) invites Bobby to come and live with her family.

Elder Glovers become Bobby's adopted parents. Alice teaches him how to cook and let him stay with them even after she catches him fooling around with her son. Jonathan leaves for college in New York City and Bobby stays back in Ohio and gets a job as a cook.

After a few years, in 1982, Alice and her ailing husband Ned (Matt Frewer) decides to move to Arizona and they want Bobby to carry on with his life. He follows Jonathan to New York, who is now living openly as a gay in Manhattan's East Village with a girlfriend Clare( Robin Wright Penn). Clare falls in love with Bobby, even though he wanted to continue his teenage sexual fantasies with Jonathan. Three of them form a love triangle and they become inseparable. After Clare becomes pregnant with Bobby's child, they all move to Woodstock, New York, trying to form a happy but unconventional family unit and to try a new way of loving and living. During the course of their life, problems lurk as jealousy surfaces in their so called smooth relationship. Jonathan start showing signs of that terrible illness which leads to more and more disasters.

First time feature director Michael Meyer, explores a new idea by telling Bobby's story from the Glory days of 60's to the Carefree days of East Village in the 80's.With a bizarre love triangle he tries to bring an emotional resonance to the movie.

Collin Farrel, as an emotionally open man looking for love and life, presents an excellent performance. Farrel's portrayal as Bobby, an innocent sweet person brings some fuzzy feel into the film. As a bisexual guy, his performance has depth and feeling. Movie brings out a message from the glory days of hippies, ' Love For All' and 'Live And Let Live'. There is a liberal nostalgia throughout the film. Even with an excellent cast, movie lacks reality and may seem too dreamy for some. Story of Bobby being an adaptive natural born lover is hard to believe and a woman loving two men at the same time in her own way, is too liberal. Characters are just playing a novelist's concept of gay and bisexual love and a liberated woman as a free lover. Familiar concept "home is ,where the heart is", is a misfit for this movie. Theme could be considered as emotional, compassionate and touching but unconventional and unrealistic.

We rate this movie Average.