Saturday, 22 December 2012

'Safety Not Guaranteed' (2012): Released Boxing Day


Safety Not Guaranteed is a 2012 American comedy-drama film inspired by a 1997 Backwoods Home Magazineclassified ad – written as a joke filler by Backwoods employee John Silveira – by a person asking for someone to accompany him in time travel. It was screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.

Budget = $750,000
Box office = $4,001,58 (US - Released 8/6/12)


Safety Not Guaranteed received critical acclaim with a 94% approval from 109 critics on Rotten Tomatoes—an average score of 7.6 out of 10—where the consensus reads: "Safety Not Guaranteed's ostensibly modest ambitions are outmatched by the movie's strong performances, beguiling charm, and heartfelt story." Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the story's shenanigans are "harnessed to a plaintive underlying theme about the fading dreams of those aspiring professionals in their 20s and 30s."

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