Safety Not Guaranteed Page #5

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
587 Views


-Don't worry about it.

I can't see much. Looks Iike an engine.

What are you buiIding in there, Kenny?

Who's this asshoIe?

Oh, my God, there are peopIe foIIowing him.

There are reaIIy peopIe foIIowing him.

We're doing this.

Stay back. Don't spook him.

-Stay back. Don't scare them.

-This is f***ing intense.

We're going fifteen miIes an hour.

Sh*t. He saw us.

Oh, sh*t, they're onto us.

Onto what?

Sh*t.

Don't Iet him see you! Duck!

Stay down!

What the heII, did you see those guys?

They Iook Iike government agents

or something.

-He's reaIIy being foIIowed.

-HoIy sh*t! Is this guy for reaI?

-Kenneth? Are you okay?

-l can't talk right now, okay?

-Just watch your back.

-Okay.

-Stay Iow and Iay Iow.

-Yeah.

Go to the beach, I'II pick you up.

It's aImost time, Darius.

This is totaIIy crazy.

-Who do you think those guys are?

-I have no idea.

Maybe he's not totaIIy insane, maybe he

reaIIy thinks he's doing something and...

I don't know.

What? Why are you Iooking at me Iike that?

I don't know. You got a thing for this guy?

What?

No! I'm taIk...

You saw those guys.

Can I ask you a question?

Do you mind, as a reporter?

What?

What is it that you two weirdos

do when you're off aIone?

I'm getting information.

What are you doing when you're off aIone?

I'm seeing an oId friend.

Just take me to the beach. I have to meet him.

AII right, this is it.

It's pretty obvious they see a threat in me

possessing this kind of power.

It's not cIear yet what entity they represent.

Their presence here

definiteIy acceIerates the pIan, though.

They're gonna

have one of their guys at every door,

but you shouId be okay.

I don't think they've ID'ed you yet.

-Got it.

-Good Iuck.

Wait!

Go! Go!

Shannon?

I'm supposed to give this to you.

This is from Kenneth.

Kenneth said to give this to me?

My wife, she's...

You teII him...

TeII him I hope he gets wherever he's goin'

and it aII works out Iike he wants.

I'II teII him.

AII good?

Yeah.

What?

Nothing.

Yeah, we're getting

some reaIIy great stuff, Bridget,

I'm gonna need a coupIe more days.

Bridget, I'm doing an interview right now.

Yeah, I'II send you an e-maiI

with aII the information,

and I'II paint you a reaI picture.

Okay. I have to go right now.

That aII seems so dangerous.

Her running around with this guy...

She'II be fine. You got any more

of that Ieftover pie? That was pretty good.

I was thinking about you

and the time we spent together.

I was pretty ripped back then.

Top of my game back then.

-You were not ripped.

-Yes, I was.

Why don't you feeI me now?

You Iook great.

-Are you famiIiar with cryptography?

-Yeah. Of course.

Yeah. WeII, I prefer

the St. Goodnight code and cipher

for sending messages

that can't be compromised.

It's just 4-4-3-1 -4 and

then you just reverse the whoIe thing, okay?

Yeah. Got it.

Learn it. Practice it.

Hey!

If I show you something, wiII you promise

not to teII anybody eIse about it, ever?

Yeah.

When we go back in time,

if anything bad happens,

if somebody gets hurt,

or if you mess up, or if the guys

who are after me find me and catch me,

put a note inside this tin.

I'm gonna do the same thing.

If anything goes wrong,

we go back and we fix it.

Okay.

So far so good.

So that's been there since 2001 ?

Since I was a kid.

I used to come up here

and camp with the Boy Scouts

near here when I was IittIe.

Do you know what Star Wars is?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

So, when I was younger,

I used to bring my Star Wars figures up here,

'cause I didn't wanna Ieave 'em

back at the house 'cause they'd get IoneIy.

And some of the more cynicaI kids

wouId make fun of me,

-they wouId throw them in the fire and stuff...

-ReaIIy?

This was before my martiaI arts training,

of course.

But I found this hiding spot

and sneak out here at night,

and put 'em in the tin, take them out,

then put them back in the morning and...

Anyway...

I wish I couId see you

when you were a IittIe kid.

I was not as impressive as I am now,

I can assure you.

-What?

-Yeah.

Okay.

-Wanna see something cooI?

-Yeah.

Come on.

That was the best sex I've ever had.

And I've had a Iot of sex.

That's what you said about the roast chicken.

That was the best roast chicken I ever had.

You don't know

how Iong I've thought about this.

You've become this, Iike, character

in my head that's Iike,

it feeIs Iike you're from a fairy taIe,

and you're Iike this purity

that's just not in my Iife.

You are so cute.

Hey. This is gonna sound crazy.

I want you to come to SeattIe with me.

-What?

-Yeah.

It's crazy, but I want you to come...

Jeff, the minute you drive out of this pIace,

you are not going to want to be with me.

That's just not true. That's what I'm saying,

I mean, do you not feeI this?

-You're not in your right mind right now.

-I'm absoIuteIy in my right mind.

This is the cIearest I've been in a Iong time.

I've done this before.

-You haven't done it with me.

-No, I've done this before and I'm too oId.

We're the same damn age.

That's perfect.

That's unbeIievabIe.

UnbeIievabIe. Okay. Great. This is good.

This is perfect. I'm gIad you said that

'cause this was a mistake.

You're right. You know what?

I open up my heart to you and...

Thank you,

because my head was turned around...

-Jeff...

-But it ain't anymore.

I think you're being a IittIe crazy about this.

Yeah. I think you're crazy for saying no.

PIease go.

I'm goin' by choice.

Why are you sitting here?

Why wouId you be sitting on your computer?

You are a young man.

You got the whoIe worId ahead of you.

I'm asking you to be a man and try.

Are you ready to have a crazy night with me?

'Cause I'm ready.

-Say you're ready. Say you're ready.

-I'm ready.

My man. Good answer.

Let's do something stupid!

Stay here.

You guys ever partied in an EscaIade?

Here we go. Here we go. Drink. Drink.

You drink. Open that up and start drinking,

I didn't buy it for nothing.

Good girI.

Go. Go.

Drink, drink, drink.

Arnau!

This guy's getting Iaid tonight.

He's my best friend!

Arnau! Pay the son of a b*tch!

You warm enough?

This is aII your stuff?

WeII, I just kind of set up here,

the Boy Scouts don't reaIIy

come up here after September, so

it's kind of Iike having a second home,

come to spend some nights

and cIear the head.

Okay. This is for you.

I circIed the Iocation on the map,

this way you'II aIways know

where to find the truck and this campsite.

-Don't get Iost.

-Okay.

What's that? Is that a guitar?

No, it's caIIed a zither.

Can you pIay this?

Not very weII at aII.

My dad had one, he was reaIIy good.

BeIinda reaIIy Iiked music, so...

I aIways wished I couId have

pIayed her something,

so I've been writing her this song

for when I see her again.

WiII you pIay it?

-It's...

-PIease?

No, it's not finished

and it's reaIIy just not very good, so...

WeII, I'II teII you if it's good or not.

Okay.

It's onIy haIfway done, so it's just Iike...

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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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