That's Last Night as in the final hours of life on earth, not as in what led up to some annoying twenty-somethings' current hangover (see Body Shots). This debut film from Don McKellar is dripping with fine vintage Canadian indie juice, featuring David Cronenberg (in whose Existenz McKellar acted) and Arsinee Khanjian (with whom McKellar co-starred in Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster and Exotica) in supporting roles, and set in a sparsely populated Toronto in the last few hours before the sun explodes. The mood of resigned, eat drink and be merry acceptance of the coming doom that the film slowly evokes (this is the anti-Armageddon) is provocative, and its focus on the small, feckless plans of its average people as the end nears gently ironizes the emptiness of contemporary lives. Last Night fails to make the most of McKellar's super story premise, in part because of his decision to cast himself as Patrick Wheeler, the largest role; his mannered blandness is grating, and the relationship he forges with Sandra Oh's character Sandra doesn't get gripping until the very last moments. The end is good, though intentionally underwhelming. But the film's minor keys and characters, like Trent McMullen's Alex, who has resolved to spend his final months and hours checking off entries on his to-do list of sexual permutations, and Cronenberg's gas company exec Duncan and his secretary, keep things fresh and interesting.