Saturday, November 17, 2012

Safety Not Guaranteed 2011


    Darius is an intern at a Seattle based magazine, she does all the jobs other people don’t want to do.  There is a staff meeting to see who has any ideas or leads on stories that can be investigated for an article.  Jeff, one of the writers saw an ad looking for a partner for time travel.  He suggests going to check this out with Aubrey and Arnau, another intern.  Jeff thinks this will be a vacation plus an opportunity to look up an old high school girlfriend.  They stake out the post office box and learn that Kenneth placed the want ad, he’s a clerk at a small grocery store.
    This film leaves you up in the air from the beginning, you go back and forth in your mind, is Kenneth on the level or he’s batty?  There are also two government agents tailing Kenneth but that doesn’t help with the is he on the level or batty answer?  I didn’t think this was a comedy (?) but it is interesting.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

86 min, Comedy directed by Colin Trevorrow with Aubrey Plaza,  Mark Duplass, Basil Harris, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni, David Schultz. 

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 7.2 out of 10, 94% critic 85% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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