Safety Not Guaranteed

Safety Not Guaranteed
Film poster
Directed byColin Trevorrow
Written byDerek Connolly
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBenjamin Kasulke
Edited by
  • Franklin Peterson
  • Joe Landauer
Music byRyan Miller
Production
companies
Distributed byFilmDistrict
Release dates
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$750,000[1]
Box office$4.4 million[2]

Safety Not Guaranteed is a 2012 American science fiction comedy film directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass. It was inspired by a joke classified ad that ran in Backwoods Home Magazine in 1997.[3] The film was screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.[4] It received generally positive reviews. In fall 2024, the film’s musical adaptation will have its world premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference collab was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Safety Not Guaranteed". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
  3. ^ Singer, Matt (11 Jan 2012). "SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED – Traveling through time with Mark Duplass and Aubrey Plaza". Sundance Channel. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 4 Mar 2020.
  4. ^ "2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards". sundance.org. January 28, 2012. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
  5. ^ Higgins, Molly (July 18, 2024). "Nkeki Obi-Melekwe, Taylor Trensch to Lead Safety Not Guaranteed at BAM". Playbill. Retrieved September 13, 2024.