About the Show

A portrait of two women pushed to the edge on a searing summer day.

Against a gritty urban landscape, the film shows that the last exit is the last straw. 

Directed by John Fawcett (The Boy's Club, Ginger Snaps) Last Exit reveals stress-filled lives to which we can all relate and the dangers to which such lives can lead.

Last Exit follows a single day in the lives of Beth Welland and Diana Burke, two mothers following two seemingly different paths. Beth (Kathleen Robertson) is a single mother to Benji, a young boy confined to a wheelchair and their cramped apartment overlooking an expressway. Beth seems to take it all in stride, while a growing desperation lurks beneath her sunny disposition. For Diana (Andrea Roth), a married mother of two with a highly successful career in advertising, life is all about keeping everybody else happy amidst the growing anxiety that she may be in over her head.

In the oppressive heat of an urban summer, the lives of these two women have violently collided. As police officers race to their uncertain rescue, parallel flashbacks gradually bring the shards of a shattered puzzle back into focus, providing truthful, if deeply unsettling, causes for the tragic effects.
Last Exit tells an all-too-familiar story of urban stress, overburdened lives, unrealistic expectations and lurking rage. As genuine concerns and petty frustrations blend into increasingly volatile emotions, one otherwise gentle mother expresses her anger on the freeway. What ensues will change both women, together with the people they love, completely and for the rest of their lives.