The Adjustment Bureau (2011) on Netflix
PG-1320111h 46mRomanceSci-FiThriller
Congressman David Norris meets Elise Sellas while practicing a speech, and the encounter inspires an unusually candid address. When they meet again, men in hats move to keep them apart.
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Plot summary
In 2006, Brooklyn congressman David Norris loses his bid for a Senate seat. Rehearsing his concession remarks in a men's bathroom, he meets Elise Sellas, who has crashed a wedding and is hiding there; she has overheard him, and they kiss. She is gone before he learns her name, and the encounter shapes the candid speech he delivers. A month later, Harry Mitchell is assigned to make David miss his bus by spilling coffee on him, but he falls asleep, and David takes it, meeting Elise again and getting her number. Arriving early at work, David finds his coworkers frozen and strangers examining them. He is subdued and taken to a warehouse, where Richardson tells him about the Adjustment Bureau and the Plan, destroys the card with Elise's number, and warns him to stay silent.
Cast
- Lisa Thoresonas Suburban Mom
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- Susan D. Michaelsas Reporter
- Gregory P. Hitchenas U.S. Coast Guard Officer (as Capt. Gregory P. Hitchen)
- Karas Political Consultant
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
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- The Chairman was later revealed to have been portrayed by actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, who said in her 2013 memoir The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines that Nolfi told her Universal Pictures was to blame for the change to the ending.
- The actress cast as the Chairman recalled that director George Nolfi decided she should play God and that everything went great until he asked her to lunch, on the verge of crying, and said the distribution company believed she could not play the role.
SPOILER
Nolfi had initially planned to show the Chairman, in female form, but while making the movie he realized how important it was to let people put their own beliefs into the ending rather than foreclose them.- Media Rights Capital funded the film and then auctioned it to distributors, with Universal Studios putting in the winning bid of $62 million.
- The release was pushed back twice, first from July 30, 2010 to September 17 and then to March 4, 2011, because Damon had to promote his two other films, True Grit and Hereafter.
- In early drafts of the script the character of Norris was changed from a real-estate salesman, as in Philip K. Dick's short story, to an up-and-coming U.S. Congressman.
