The Adjustment Bureau


The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 American romantic science fiction thriller film loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, Adjustment Team. The film was written and directed by George Nolfi and stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The cast also includes Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly, and Terence Stamp.

A month later, David prepares for a new job. At Madison Square Park, near Davids home, a man named Harry Mitchell receives an assignment from Richardson, his boss ensure David spills coffee on his shirt by 705 AM so he misses his bus. Mitchell falls asleep and misses David, who encounters Elise on the bus and gets her phone number. David arrives at work to find his friend Charlie Traynor frozen in time and being examined by unfamiliar men. David attempts to escape, but is incapacitated and taken to a warehouse. Richardson explains he and his men are from the Adjustment Bureau. They ensure peoples lives proceed as determined by the Plan, a complex document Richardson attributes to the Chairman. The Bureau confiscates and destroys the note that contains Elises phone number, and David is warned that if he reveals the existence of the Bureau to anyone else, he will be resetakin to being lobotomized. He is not meant to meet Elise again.Three years later, after boarding a bus, David encounters Elise he tells her he spent three years riding that bus to work, hoping to see her. He learns that she dances for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The Bureau tries to stop him from renewing their relationship by altering their schedules. David races across town, fighting the Bureaus abilities to control his choices to ensure he will meet Elise. During the chase the Bureau uses ordinary doorways to travel instantly to distant locations. Senior official Thompson takes over Davids adjustment and takes him to the warehouse, where David argues he has the right to choose his own path. ........

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