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Safety Not Guaranteed

Safety Not Guaranteed

  • Status: Released
  • 08-06-2012
  • Runtime: 86 min
  • Score: 6.772
  • Vote count: 1504

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

Aubrey Plaza

Darius Britt

Mark Duplass

Kenneth Calloway

Jake Johnson

Jeff Schwensen

Karan Soni

Arnau

Jenica Bergere

Liz McHollis

Kristen Bell

Belinda

Jeff Garlin

Mr. Britt

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Bridget Bay

William Hall Jr.

Shannon

Tony Doupe

Smith

Xola Malik

Jones

Kimberly Durham

Linsey

Grace Arends

Darcy

Scott Swan

Halloween

Basil Harris

Restaurant Manager

Tom Ricciardelli

Security Guard

Lynn Shelton

Uptight Mom

Eli Borozan

Kid in Diner

Alice Hung

Shift Manager

edward

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.

Kamurai

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.

Peter McGinn

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.