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Safety Not Guaranteed

Safety Not Guaranteed is about a lot of things. But the very basics are that a man places an ad in a Seattle newspaper searching for a time travel partner. The actual ad is in the poster above, and is where the movie gets it’s title. A reporter (Johnson; New Girl) who has ulterior motives takes two interns with him to the vacation spot where he used to spend his summers as a teen and also where the P.O. Box in the ad is. The interns are two outcasts, one our main protagonist, Darius (Aubrey Plaza; Parks & Recreation) who has been stuck since her mother’s death, along with the nerdy Arnau (Soni). After making contact with the seemingly crazy Kenneth (Duplass; The League, Zero Dark Thirty) Darius forms a strange bond with the man who just wants to go back to correct a past mistake.

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Save The Date

Save The Date is a romantic comedy/drama that centers around Sarah (Caplan; Mean Girls, Cloverfield) who rejects a proposal from her boyfriend (Arend) and winds up in a relationship with a guy who has a crush on her from the bookstore she is manager of (Webber). At the same time her sister (Brie) is preparing for her wedding to Sarah’s ex’s bandmate and best friend played by Martin Starr.

Butter

Butter is a political satire based on the 2008 primaries set in the world of butter carving. When reigning champ Bob Pickler (Burrell; Modern Family) is asked to step down, his wife (Garner; Juno) decides she’ll bring home the championship, especially after she finds her husband with a hooker (Wilde; House, The Change-Up). In her way though is a determined African American little girl in foster care who’s new on the scene with a natural talent named Destiny (Shahidi).

Compliance

Compliance is a drama about a horrible prank that goes way too far. Fast food restaurant manager Sandy (Dowd) receives a call from someone claiming to be a police officer saying that one of her employees, Becky (Walker; Don’t Trust The B in Apt 23) has stolen some money from a customer and could she help him question her until he can arrive. Things quickly escalate with the man on the phone asking for more and more and things just getting worse and worse for Becky.

Piranha 3DD

Piranha 3DD is the direct sequel to the Piranha remake Piranha 3D. This time the action is centered on the Big Wet water park, far enough from Lake Victoria to assume they are safe. The park has fallen into the hands of Maddy’s (Panabaker; Sky High, Friday The 13th remake) step-father Chet (Koechner; Anchorman, Thank You For Smoking) who has made a large portion of the park into an adults only water park. Maddy along with her friends must try and stop the piranha from attacking on the opening day.

Bachelorette

Bachelorette is about 3 old friends (Caplan, Dunst, Fisher) who reunite on the eve of another high school friend’s (Wilson; Bridesmaids) wedding. While the bride sleeps, the three friends get into a variety of drug induced trouble and also encounters with the groomsmen, who are also friends and lovers from high school.

Detention

Detention is a genre defying film about a group of teens at Grizzly Lake High who while engaging in classes, finding prom dates, and more, also have to fight off a killer. Oh and there’s time travel. And a lot more. This is an incredibly hard movie to sum up.

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is about a naive, not very smart midwestern kid (Swardson; Pretend Time) discovers that once upon a time his parents were both porn stars (Herrmann & Flynn). After making this discovery he heads to Hollywood to become a star. Once there he discovers that with his ultra tiny penis and unique sexual abilities he’s not what the porn industry is looking for while befriending a waitress with dreams of more (Ricci; Black Snake Moan, After.Life). Through a series of events he winds up becoming a unique sensation.

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Tucker and Dale vs Evil is a comedy based on tropes of the horror genre about 2 rednecks, Tucker (Tudyk; Serenity) and Dale (Labine; A Good Old Fashioned Orgy), who are headed to their “fixer-upper” of a cabin in the woods that they’ve just purchased. Through a series of miscommunications and snap judgements a group of college kids in the same woods mistake them for backwoods killers.

The Dictator

The Dictator is about the dictator of the fictional north African country of Wadiya, Aladeen (Cohen; Borat, Bruno). He is forced to come to NYC to address the UN but finds himself in the middle of a failed assassination attempt and replaced by a body double who is being tricked into signing a constitution to bring democracy to Wadiya. Stuck on the streets of NY he must trust his ex-Nuclear scientist (Mantzoukas; The League) and the owner of a market (Faris; The House Bunny) who goes against all his beliefs.

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