Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Matt Damon | ... | David Norris | |
Emily Blunt | ... | Elise Sellas | |
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Lisa Thoreson | ... | Suburban Mom |
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Florence Kastriner | ... | Suburban Mom |
Michael Kelly | ... | Charlie Traynor | |
Phyllis MacBryde | ... | Suburban Neighbor | |
Natalie Carter | ... | Suburban Neighbor (as Natalie E. Carter) | |
Chuck Scarborough | ... | Chuck Scarborough | |
Jon Stewart | ... | Jon Stewart | |
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Gregory P. Hitchen | ... | U.S. Coast Guard Officer (as Capt. Gregory P. Hitchen) |
Darrell Lenormand | ... | Upstate Farmer (as Darrell James LeNormand) | |
Michael Bloomberg | ... | Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg) | |
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Kar | ... | Political Consultant |
RJ Konner | ... | Political Consultant | |
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Susan D. Michaels | ... | Reporter |
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. Written by Universal Pictures
We have here smart and smooth dialog, ontological arguments, great acting, sci-fi, clever editing, space-time dimensions and an inspiring love story. After watching the trailer, when I hear Philip K. Dick + George Nolfi (Bourne's Ultimatum, Ocean's 12, ¡Timeline!...), something disturbing came to my mind: a kind of Dark City-Paycheck hybrid... Nothing further from the truth.
The adaptation of PKD's short stories for the screen has no newness, but do it in a completely new shape within a romantic-comedy-like film (preserving all the Chaos Theory/Free Will/Determinism leitmotiv of the text) is a show worth seeing.