Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

6.8 ? Jun 08, 2012 1h 26m

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Overview

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Overview

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Genres

Comedy Romance Science Fiction

Release Date

June 08, 2012

Rating

6.8 /10

Runtime

1h 26m

Official Trailer from YouTube

Aubrey Plaza

Darius

Mark Duplass

Kenneth

Jake Johnson

Jeff

Karan Soni

Arnau

Jenica Bergere

Liz

Kristen Bell

Belinda

Jeff Garlin

Mr. Britt

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Bridget

Lauren Carlos

Young Darius

Basil Harris

Restaurant Manager

David Leo

Coworker

William Hall Jr.

Shannon

Alice Hung

Shift Manager

Hassan Cristos Messiah

Boyfriend in Car

Keli Schurman-Darby

Girlfriend in Car

Lynn Shelton

Uptight Mom

Peter Anthony Jacobs

Deputy Sheriff

Eli Borozan

Kid in Diner

Tom Ricciardelli

Security Guard

Tony Doupe

Smith

edward

Feb 08, 2017

Quirky little comedy that asks you to believe in the impossible. Some good chuckles and some sweet scenes between Plaza and Duplass, but nothing really of substance. But it's easy to sit through.

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Kamurai

8.0/10

Sep 25, 2020

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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Peter McGinn

8.0/10

Dec 01, 2021

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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