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Safety Not Guaranteed

2012 • 1h 26m •
Comedy Romance Science Fiction
MOVIEVIBE Rating
★ 6.8/10
1,686 reviews
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Safety Not Guaranteed

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

"What would you go back for?"

Top Billed Cast

Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey Plaza
Darius
Mark Duplass
Mark Duplass
Kenneth
Jake Johnson
Jake Johnson
Jeff
Karan Soni
Karan Soni
Arnau
Jenica Bergere
Jenica Bergere
Liz
Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell
Belinda
Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin
Mr. Britt
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Bridget

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

E edward Verified TMDB Critic
2017-02-08

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....

K Kamurai Verified TMDB Critic
2020-09-25

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 ...

P Peter McGinn Verified TMDB Critic
2021-12-01

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 tal...