The Adjustment Bureau Page #8

Synopsis: Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York the only woman he's ever loved. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Matt Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself, the men of The Adjustment Bureau, who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path... or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her.
Director(s): George Nolfi
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG-13
Year:
2011
106 min
$62,453,315
Website
2,518 Views


Yeah.

- You're David Norris!

- Yeah, I got to go.

Nothing in the hat.

Go ahead.

She's not even

in there.

Where is she?

Where is she?

Elise.

You're not

marrying that guy.

I'm so sorry,

and I don't know what you must

think of me, but you can't marry him.

You don't love him.

I've been terrible, I know.

- I'm getting married.

- No, you can't.

Don't touch me!

What are you doing?

Do you know that no one has

ever hurt me as much as you did?

I'm so sorry that I left

you the way that I did.

David, you know what? You

left me in a f***ing hospital.

What are you doing?

I know it seems terrible

but there was a reason.

You don't know

anything about me

and what makes me happy.

I'm sorry that I hurt you.

Oh, my God.

Don't worry about him,

he's with them.

- Just listen to me.

- Oh, my God, what did you do?

- Forget about him.

- What are you doing?

Look at me, I know

that you love me.

Okay, this says

that you love me

and that I love you and that

we're not supposed to be together.

Because of this book.

But I know that I'm

supposed to be with you

because of the way I feel.

I love you and I don't

care what happens.

I want to spend the rest of my life with

you even if it's only a little while.

He just revealed us.

Call the Intervention Team.

Tell them it's

a square-one reset.

Mr. Thompson has deployed

the Intervention Team.

He's requesting an emergency

Reset Authorization.

I'll carry it in.

Why are they chasing you?

They're going to reset me.

What are you

talking about?

I never lied to you.

Down here.

He's down here.

I love you, Elise.

I'm going to show

you something.

You deserve to know.

What's going on?

We got to keep moving.

There is another door here.

Got them.

Sixth Avenue.

Contain this.

Oh, my God.

What's happening to me?

All you need to know,

we're being chased.

I need you to trust me.

I need you to trust me.

- Okay.

- Okay, come on.

Door, door, door!

Find another door!

What the hell is going on?

What the hell is

going on, David?

Okay, I'm sorry.

How did we

just do that?

I'm so sorry.

These doors belong to the

people who are chasing us.

- Who are they?

- I don't know what to call them,

but they want to take

you away from me.

Why do they

care about us?

They hurt your ankle,

Elise.

Everything you've worked

for your entire life,

it doesn't happen

if you stay with me.

That's why I left you

in the hospital.

I don't understand.

I don't understand.

This can't be wrong.

This can't be wrong.

Why do they

think it's wrong?

The book... Their book.

But what if I can

find who wrote it?

Okay, I can go

through this door alone.

You'll never see me or the

people chasing us again.

Or you could come with me, and I

don't know what's on the other side,

but I know you

would be next to me,

and that's all I've wanted

since the minute I met you.

I'm coming with you.

Okay.

Take the other one.

Turn it to the left.

To the left.

Oh, my God.

Hey!

You can't be in here.

Stop, sir!

Hold them up!

Come on.

Stop them!

Harry Mitchell, they want

you in the Chairman's office.

Immediately.

Come on.

Hey! Hey!

How did you get in here?

Search the room!

Sh*t!

Go back.

No.

Oh, my God.

- I love you.

- I love you.

Did you really think you

could reach the Chairman?

And change your

fate if you did?

Or write your own?

It doesn't work like that

and I told you why.

I've got a message for you.

I understand.

Even Thompson has a boss.

Harry?

You're the Chairman?

No.

You've met him

though, or her.

Everybody has.

The Chairman comes in a

different form to everyone

so people rarely realize

when it happens.

Is this some

sort of test?

In a way, it's all a test,

for everybody, even the members

of the Adjustment Bureau.

David, you risked

everything for Elise.

And Elise, when you came through

that door at the Statue of Liberty,

you risked everything, too.

But you inspired me.

It seems like you

inspired the Chairman, too.

Is that about us?

Yes.

What does it say?

It says that this situation

between the two of you

is a serious deviation

from the plan.

So, the Chairman

rewrote it.

Okay.

Now what?

Now...

You can take the stairs.

Most people live life

on the path we set for them.

Too afraid

to explore any other.

But once in a while,

people like you come along

who knock down all the obstacles

we put in your way.

People who realize free will is a gift

you'll never know how to use

until you fight for it.

I think that's the

Chairman's real plan

that maybe one day

we won't write the plan.

You will.

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George Nolfi

George Nolfi is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He directed the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau, which he also wrote (adapted from a short story by Philip K. Dick). more…

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