How It Ends is a 2021 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones. It stars Lister-Jones and Cailee Spaeny, with cameo appearances by 23 others in a series of vignettes, facilitating the reality of 2020 COVID-19 protocols while serving the underlying plot device of walking through the deserted streets of Los Angeles. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 29, 2021 and was released in the United States on July 20, 2021, by United Artists Releasing.