Fresh
Plaza and Duplass are enormously watchable, and there's a sweet sadness in the movie's focus on lost dreams and missed chances, and the truism that we all long for a time machine every once in a while.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Safety Not Guaranteed
What would you go back for?
2012 · 1h 26m · R
Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by
Colin Trevorrow
Overview
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Director and cast
- Colin Trevorrow Director
- Aubrey Plaza as Darius Britt
- Basil Harris as Restaurant Manager
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Bridget Bay
- Jake Johnson as Jeff Schwensen
- Karan Soni as Arnau
- David Leo as Coworker (as David Leo Schultz)
- Jeff Garlin as Mr. Britt
- Mark Duplass as Kenneth Calloway
- William Hall Jr. as Shannon
- Tony Doupe as Smith (as Tony Doupé)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Safety Not Guaranteed is droll and hilarious, but there isn't a cheap laugh in it, and the ending is so perfect it sends you soaring.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Rotten
"Safety" can't sustain its own offbeat energy. By the end, even Aubrey Plaza would roll her eyes at it.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
Fresh
"Safety Not Guaranteed" is eccentric enough to get mistaken for an uplifting fantasy, but it's Plaza who belongs in the penthouse.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
Neatly, the script embarks on one journey while dangling the possibility of another: the prospect of taking a sudden leap from comic reality into the realm of pure imagination.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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