An exciting, all-star cast, including Aubrey Plaza (Scott Pilgrim vs the World, TV’s “Parks and Recreation”), Mark Duplass (Darling Companion, TV’s “The League”) and Jake Johnson (TV’s “New Girl”, No Strings Attached), appear in the witty and heartfelt, dramatic comedy SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, available now on Blu-ray™ and DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Check out Tom Stockman’s review HERE. He gave the film 4 1/2 stars and called it, “one of the best films this year.”
The film follows a trio of magazine employees as they embark on a smart and unexpectedly heartfelt journey in search of a mysterious man who put an ad in the paper, seeking a partner for time travel. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and one of the best-reviewed films of the year, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED also stars Karan Soni (TV’s “Worst. Prom. Ever.”),Mary Lynn Rajskub (TV’s “24”), Basil Harris (Grassroots), David Schultz (Scouts Honor), and Jeff Garlin (TV’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”).
Bonus features on the Blu-ray and DVD include two behind-the-scenes featurettes: “A Movie Making Mission,” providing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film with director Colin Trevorrow and various cast members; and “The Ad Behind the Movie,” providing a look at the original ad that inspired the movie.
Synopsis:
An unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to go looking for the story behind it. They discover its author is a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth (Mark Duplass), a likeable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon.
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED was directed by Colin Trevorrow from the screenplay by Derrick Connolly. Derek Connolly, Stephanie Langhoff, Peter Saraf, Colin Trevorrow and Marc Turtletaub produced with Michael B. Clark, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass and John Hodges serving as executive producers.
“The script struck me as a great underdog story,” says Duplass, who in addition to playing the role of ‘Kenneth’ came on board to executive produce the project. “Two of my favorite films are ROCKY and AMERICAN MOVIE. They share protagonists who the world seems to be against but they have purity and passion of heart in the way they go about doing things. Kenneth has that, but has it in a way that is at once heartwarming and ridiculous. It was the combination of the absurd and the heartfelt that drew me into his character.” Added Trevorrow, “Kenneth’s character could have been silly and goofy, but we thought making him more grounded, a more real human being that was doing preposterous things would make the film more balanced.”
Bonus Features Include:
“A Movie Making Mission” Featurette
“The Ad Behind the Movie” Featurette
Time Capsule-Easter Egg
The cast and creative team’s beliefs in time travel runs the gamut: Trevorrow says, “On the science side, the great inventions don’t always come from someone working at a big corporation – they could come from that crazy lunatic building things in the garage. Don’t underestimate the lunatic who really believes he sees things differently than the way the rest of us do. This applies to whether it’s time travel or a crazy invention.”
Duplass says, “I’d really love to believe that we could get into a machine and travel through time, but I don’t. Then we see films like PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED and SOMEWHERE IN TIME where you enter an altered state of consciousness and go back to a certain time and place and live in it in some shape or form. For me, I want to believe in that.”
For Plaza, “I believe in spells, witchcraft, ghosts. I also believe in time travel although haven’t seen it with my own eyes, but am sure that it happens. If I could time travel I would go to London in 1969 and find Judy Garland and hang out with her!”
Soni believes in other lives, “I don’t believe that this is our only life. I believe that all the things we do in this life will affect what happens in other lives. Reincarnation in that way is like a weird form of time travel.”
And finally, Connolly says, “Even though that would be my one wish if I was given one I’m kind of a science nerd and from what I understand from pretty much all of the top physicists it is completely impossible to travel backwards in time and practically impossible to travel forward in time. Not a romantic answer but that’s kind of the crux of the movie, balancing fantasy and romance with the reality of life.”
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED has a running time of 86 minutes, and is rated R for language including some sexual references.
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