Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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Produced by the people behind Little Miss Sunshine , and apparently inspired by an actual newspaper ad, Safety Not Guaranteed has at its centre a typical mumblecore character.
From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine.
The humor is very dry, but also very smart and usually capitalizes on awkward situations; think " Little Miss Sunshine ."
Because the producers of "Safety Not Guaranteed" were also behind "Little Miss Sunshine," there's a good chance Plaza's adventures in quantum physics will be exactly what she needs to get past her own beautifully tragic history.
There is clear onscreen chemistry between Plaza and Duplass, which is only occasionally jiggled by nagging thoughts about their 11-year age difference and Plaza’s almost-constant reminders of Ellen Page in Juno mode.
Since 2004's "Primer" - a way better indie film about messing with the space/time continuum - expensive gear and recognizable stars have had the same effect on film festivals as bringing nuclear weapons to a knife fight: Pretty soon, there's no knife fight anymore, just a lot of radioactive waste.
While the film doesn’t finally shy away from revealing whether Duplass is a mad genius or simply a loon, it downplays the question in favor of playing out the dynamics between characters (which is to say, Primer this is not).
She fires back: "There's no sense in nonsense when the heat is hot ..." And then, like a mix of "Donnie Brasco" and "Miracle on 34th Street," the question quickly becomes if Kenneth is crazy -- or if Darius is simply a little crazy about him.