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Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

R 86 minutes EN Comedy , Romance , Science Fiction
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Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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Great watch, will watch again, and do recommend.
I love the philosophical discussions that happen in this movie, both explicitly and as part of the situations. I love the story within a story within a story aspect of the script structure, with multi-threading as well.
While the roles are a little (by design) stock characters, their personalities grown and change and stay interesting while keeping their core tenants.
The investigative style to the main story line intuitively delivers as a mystery, with proper drip-fed information and misleads. It all properly builds to a significant moment in the story where you begin to question things.
I highly recommend this for fans of conspiracy, time-travel, mysteries, or just weirdos with wishful thinking.

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The most negative review

I wanted to watch this movie because I like stories about time travel. It turns out it isn’t really a time travel movie, though one character says he has done it and plans to do it again, and there is a lot of talking about traveling into the past.
But that is not the point. It is a an entertaining movie for the patient viewer who doesn’t mind an oddball comedy. There is witty dialogue, especially observations drily delivered by lead character Darius. There are a couple of ordinary and almost cliched subplots involving the two men accompanying her on the investigative assignment to talk to the alleged time traveler, so don’t go to the fridge for a snack when she is onscreen. Fortunately that is for most of the scenes.
I don’t know that I will ever watch it again, because I am not young and there are a lot of movies I still need to watch. But neither do I regret the 90 minutes I spent with it. As a final side note, the movie ends where many time travel films begin, but I will say no more than that.

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Production companies: Duplass Brothers Productions, Big Beach
Production countries: United States of America
Budget: $750,000
Revenue: $4,424,699

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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