

Safety Not Guaranteed
What would you go back for?
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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6.8/10
1,700 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $750K
- Box office
- $4.4M
- Language
- English
- time travel
- time machine
- loss of virginity
- womanizer
- mumblecore
- dreamer
- intern
- repressed memory
- false memory
- former flame
- curious
- mysterious
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival22 Jan 2012
- PremiereSouth by Southwest Film Festival10 Mar 2012
- Theatrical (limited)R8 Jun 2012
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1526 Dec 2012
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM26 Jul 2012
CanadaCA
- TheatricalR15 Jun 2012
BelgiumBE
- PremiereRazor Reel Fantastic Film Festival Bruges27 Oct 2012
FranceFR
- PremiereFestival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg20 Sept 2012
GermanyDE
- Premiere12Munich International Film Festival30 Jun 2012
- TheatricalDVD and Blu-Ray premiere6 Mar 2014
GreeceGR
- PremiereAthens Film Festival20 Sept 2012
HungaryHU
- PremiereJameson Cinefest International Film Festival19 Sept 2012
JapanJP
- PhysicalDVD premiere3 Jul 2013
MexicoMX
- PhysicalBlu-ray release30 Oct 2012
NetherlandsNL
- PremiereLeiden International Film Festival26 Oct 2012
Frequently asked questions
Safety Not Guaranteed was released on 8 June 2012.
Audience reviews
3- E
edward
2/8/2017
Quirky little comedy that asks you to believe in the impossible. Some good chuckles and some sweet scenes between Plaza and Duplass, but nothing really of substance. But it's easy to sit through.
- K8/10
Kamurai
9/25/2020
Great watch, will watch again, and do recommend. I love the philosophical discussions that happen in this movie, both explicitly and as part of the situations. I love the story within a story within a story aspect of the script structure, with multi-threading as well. While the roles are a little (by design) stock characters, their personalities grown and change and stay interesting while keeping their core te…
- P8/10
Peter McGinn
12/1/2021
I wanted to watch this movie because I like stories about time travel. It turns out it isn’t really a time travel movie, though one character says he has done it and plans to do it again, and there is a lot of talking about traveling into the past. But that is not the point. It is a an entertaining movie for the patient viewer who doesn’t mind an oddball comedy. There is witty dialogue, especially observations dr…
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