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Synopsis: Darius is a young intern at a Seattle-based magazine and jumps at the chance to investigate the author of a classified ad seeking someone to travel back in time with. Along with Jeff, the staff writer, and Arnau, a fellow intern, the three go on a road trip to a coastal town. While Jeff just wants to chase after his high school crush and Arnau wants some kind of life experience, Darius spends her time with Kenneth, a man who believes that he has built a time machine. The closer they become and the more they understand about each other, the less clear it becomes if Kenneth is just crazy or if he actually is going to successfully travel back in time.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Colin Trevorrow
Production: Film District
  7 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2012
86 min
$4,007,792
Website
590 Views


something incredible has happened.

I do beIieve that martiaI arts

are for self-defense only.

While l would like to maneuver through

this world with an open heart and mind,

sometimes that doesn't gain you favor.

So I just need to be equipped

with the necessary skill sets,

guns, training, weapons, fighting,

in case l encounter any obstacles

that need to be defeated.

-The area is cIear.

-Oh, my God!

Mission accomplished.

-Wow! Man, that was intense.

-Task completed.

The mission has to do with regret

and the mission has to do with mistakes.

The mission's aIso about Iove.

l'm already saying too much.

Aren't you interested in some of

this equipment or something?

Can we taIk about something eIse?

So it's very important that you and I

do not abuse the power

that wiII come with our knowIedge

of the future.

No matter how tempting

it wiII be to gain personaI fortune

or notoriety by say,

being the first person to Iist

the Contra code for up, up,

down, down, Ieft-right, Ieft-right, B-A-start.

Or to say, "Hey, Ieave your Star Wars

figurines in the box

"'cause they'II be worth Iike hundreds more

if they are super pristine."

But what about if it's, Iike,

for the betterment of future society?

AbsoIuteIy not. We have to stick to the pIan.

So when do you fiII me in on the pIan?

Pretty soon. The action's getting hungry.

I can't eat here.

-Why?

-See that kid? He's Iike a mutant kid.

Hey, there's something on your ear.

-It's fine, it does...

-Are you okay?

-It Iooks Iike it's faIIing off or something.

-No, no, no. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

Sh*t! Sorry. It's off.

-Kenneth!

-The mission's off, I'm sorry.

Forget it. You're not the right one.

Hey, what's wrong?

It's fake.

-What's fake?

-My fIipping ear is fake.

They used to make fun of me,

aII the other kids.

My parents couId onIy afford one prosthetic,

so I had to wait untiI I was fuIIy-grown.

-You know that's not a big deaI, right?

-Yes, it is!

No, it isn't.

PeopIe used to make fun of me, too.

Yeah, right.

I shave my arms and wax my upper Iip, okay?

-You're saying that to make me feeI better.

-I'm serious.

I had a freaking mustache untiI I was 14.

Okay, we can stiII do this,

but you have to promise me

we're never, ever gonna taIk about

my ear ever again

for as Iong as you and I both shaII Iive.

-Okay. Okay.

-Forever.

-But can I say something?

-What?

I think it's kinda cooI.

-Get in.

-Okay.

So then, what did you teII him your reason

for going back to 2001 is?

I just made up some story.

Yeah? What's the story?

I toId him that I was gonna go back

and stop my parents from getting divorced.

Arnau, you son of a b*tch. Smash him!

What are you doing?

Whatever I'm doing,

I'm feeIing fan-f***ing-tastic doing it.

Did you just have sex with that girI

you came here to staIk?

No, I didn't, actuaIIy.

We shared a nice conversation.

And you know the truth is, she's not that fat.

I don't know,

a girI's beauty, it's in the eyes, you know?

And that doesn't go away with age.

So, anyway,

can we pIease just focus on the articIe

and figure out what's wrong with this guy,

Iike Iow I.Q.,

or emotionaI disorder, or whatever it is?

What makes you think there's something

wrong with him?

'Cause he thinks he can go back in time.

Was there something wrong with Einstein

or David Bowie?

Not the same.

Just because the guy's

trying to do something new

doesn't mean he's a freak show.

So you think this is normaI?

I don't know. Is it normaI that your interns

do aII your work for you?

-Is that normaI?

-Right.

Is that how aII your articIes get written?

It's him. I have to go.

Okay, this is it.

There's technoIogy inside this buiIding

that I need to compIete the machine

that wiII take us on ourjourney.

I'm gonna breach the outer perimeter,

gonna disabIe their security measures,

penetrate the target,

Iocate and secure the package,

then we'II rendezvous at the getaway point.

You got it?

Rendezvous at the getaway point.

-I've been watching this pIace for weeks.

-Yeah, got it.

-The security's fuII of hoIes. We'II be fine.

-Okay.

-F***!

-Stay focused.

What am l doing? Why am l doing this?

Let me see those keys.

Sh*t!

Okay.

Come on!

Excuse me?

Hey! Hey! What is that? What are those?

-Lasers.

-Lasers?

-Those are reaI Iasers?

-The mission's been compromised.

Hey. Where are you going?

Let's get out of here! Drive!

-FIoor it!

-Sorry.

What do we do with the van?

Leave it. I stoIe it from the Iot.

Hey, you didn't hurt anyone, did you?

Like, you didn't...

No, no, no, no. Look, it's a fake.

-No casuaIties. Here. Take it.

-Okay.

-You okay?

-Yeah.

Take this. It'II make you feeI better.

You're shaking.

It's just adrenaIine from the infiItration.

It's good.

-You ready? Come on, Iet's go. Come on.

-Yeah. Yeah.

Go. Go.

We gotta stick to the back roads,

we can't be seen out here.

Oh, my God! Okay.

-Damn it! We're getting off the road.

-Why?

Those are government empIoyees.

They'II bIow our cover.

We gotta wait it out.

Kenneth, it's fine. They won't teII.

No. We can't have any witnesses

that wiII connect my car to the van.

The peopIe that are after me

are gonna be on fuII aIert.

They'II put the pieces together.

TotaIIy unprofessionaI!

It's okay.

It's just...

It's a girI.

My reason for going back is a girI.

-Who was she?

-She's my first girIfriend.

Her birthday was the exact same day

in ApriI as mine is in October.

We ended up working at the same restaurant.

She was just so nice to me.

She wouId make me speciaI food

and after work, whiIe aII her friends

were getting ready to go out,

she wouId just hang out and taIk with me.

She was reaIIy pretty.

What happened to her?

She died.

Some jerk,

some a-hoIe jerk in a band got drunk

and crashed his car into her Iiving room.

I shouId have been there, you know.

PeopIe teII you that

there are other girIs out there, you know, and

it's not just about a girI, it's about...

It's about a time and a pIace.

Do you have a favorite song?

WouId you teII me what it is?

-It's stupid.

-What is it?

Over the Rainbow.

It's a reaIIy beautifuI song.

It's that time and that pIace and that song,

and you remember what it was Iike

when you're in that pIace,

and then you Iisten to that song,

and you know you're not in that pIace

anymore and it makes you feeI hoIIow.

Can't just go find that stuff again.

I Iike your reason for going back.

It's reaIIy nice.

Thanks.

-F***ing Iasers?

-What kind of Iasers?

I don't know, I'm not a frickin' Stormtrooper.

This guy's awesome.

He's over there right now

thinking he's buiIding

a frickin' time machine.

Hey, Arnau, what are the chances

he can do that with these Iasers?

-How wouId I know, I'm not a...

-He doesn't know.

He's not a frickin' Stormtrooper either.

Stormtroopers don't know anything

about Iasers or time traveI,

they're bIue-coIIar workers.

I gotta see this sh*t.

-Isn't this Iike vioIating his privacy?

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Derek Connolly

Derek Connolly (born c. 1976 in Miami, Florida) is an American screenwriter and film producer, mostly known for his collaborations with director Colin Trevorrow on the films Safety Not Guaranteed and Jurassic World. Connolly was also reported to be working on a remake of the film Flight of the Navigator as well as writing an upcoming Pixar film with Teddy Newton. Connolly was listed on Variety's Ten Screenwriters to Watch in 2012. Connolly rewrote Kong: Skull Island (2017), for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Connolly has been tapped to pen the script for a Metal Gear film. Connolly and Trevorrow co-wrote the screenplay for the sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and by February 2018, had written a story treatment for Jurassic World 3, set for release on June 11, 2021.Connolly attended Palmetto High School in Miami and NYU Film School. more…

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