2012 · comedy · romance · sci-fi
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Directed by Colin Trevorrow1h 26m2012
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Our read: Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) (2012) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · romance · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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