Nightfox wrote to All <=-
This past weekend, my wife and I watched the movie "Safety Not Guaranteed". It's not a new movie (it's from 2012), but we hadn't seen
it. I had heard about it before; it's based on a joke ad that someone placed in a magazine in 1997 about someone looking for someone to go
back in time with him. Part of the ad text was "Safety not guaranteed", which is where the movie title comes from.
I read up about it, sounds good. I'm going to try and find it online.
Googling it led to a movie called "The One I Love", with Mark Duplass
(Kenneth in "Safety...") and Elizabeth Moss involving married couples
and doppelgangers. Looks interesting, too.
Hollywood can be formula-driven and unoriginal ("A remake of the sequel
of a reboot based on a board game") that finding smaller, original
indie-ish films is a rewarding pasttime.
The movie: A local newspaper is trying to come up with ideas for a
story, and someone mentions seeing an ad for someone looking for
someone to go back in time with him, and he offers to find him and come back with a story about it. He brings 2 interns with him, and they end
up finding where he lives. The newspaper employee approaches him about
it, pretending to actually want to go with him, but the guy doesn't respond well to him, so he (newspaper guy) has one of his interns try instead, to pretend to want to go, gain his trust, and go along with it for the story. This actually works, and every day, the intern meets up with the guy to get ready and 'train' to go back in time; the guy also needs to find information and parts for his supposed time machine
(while the newspaper crew people still question whether this guy is
insane or not) Then, every evening, the newspaper crew meets up in
their hotel room to share notes.
Side stories: The intern and the guy planning to go back in time start
to fall for each other, and the newspaper employee reveals he went to
this town to find and meet up with an old ex-girlfriend. Stuff ensues.
I don't want to give away the ending, but overall, we thought this was
a fairly entertaining movie.
Nightfox
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