The End

About The End

Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.

The End is a 1978 comedy film directed by Burt Reynolds. Its themes are whimsical, terminal illness, sarcastic, and mental patient.

Burt Reynolds stars as Wendell Sonny Lawson, Dom DeLuise as Marlon Borunki, Sally Field as Mary Ellen, and Strother Martin as Dr. Waldo Kling. It runs 100 minutes and was released in May 1978.

The screenplay is by Jerry Belson. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.

In Space with Markiplier, Zombieland, and Fargo make useful companions to The End, all filed under absurd and hilarious. TMDB voters put it at 5.6 out of 10 across 73 votes and it carries a R rating.