Safety Not Guaranteed

I had not heard of this movie before watching it, and was so pleasantly surprised!  It was so good!

The premise is that a writer for a Seattle magazine (Jake Johnson) finds a personal ad looking for someone to go back in time with the person posting the ad.  The ad says this person must supply his/her own weapons, and safety is not guaranteed, because the poster has only done this once before.  The magazine guy grabs two interns (Aubrey Plaza and an Karan Soni) and drives out to the town where the ad's P.O. box is located.  They find the guy who posted it (Mark Duplass) working at a Wal-Mart, and the movie progresses from there.

Side story: the writer really only wanted to take the assignment so he could spend some time wooing a girl from his boyhood summers in the same town as the P.O. box, so he is kind of distracted from the story.  Because of this (and because his first attempt to communicate with Duplass's character was a stunning flop) he lets Plaza's character do most of the work, with intriguing results.

Highly recommend this one.

Availability: DVD and Streaming
Released: 2012
Reason I watched it: Netflix recommended it