5 Films that will help you get over your January funk

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Rounding out the haze-clearing list is this Colin Trevorrow-directed sci-fi rom-com. (Double whammy abbreviations are my weakness. Give me the weird mash-up films!) Starring Aubrey Plaza as recent college grad Darius, New Girl‘s Jake Johnson as writer Jeff and Mark Duplass as outsider Kenneth Calloway, Safety Not Guaranteed speaks to the weirdos. After discovering an advertisement in the paper calling for individuals interested in going back in time, Jeff begs Darius to come aboard his team who begin investigating the mysterious classifieds post. What follows is an unexpectedly heartfelt story of romance and the unbelievable that is all-around cute, a little crazy and a lot uplifting. Safety Not Guaranteed is a film that seems low-maintenance and humble, but ends up being a stellar one filled with charm and broader themes of dreams, hope and what it means to be an adult.