When was the adjustment bureau written

Possibly is the key word. His single act of groundbreaking sincerity involves telling an audience that politicians hire media consultants to advise them on every detail of their appearance, something that every 9th grader in America probably knows. Emily Blunt is an appealing performer. She helped to make The Devil Wears Prada somewhat more bearable than it might otherwise have been, and charmed in Sunshine Cleaning Matt Damon is an interesting and intelligent actor, with more than 15 years of credits already behind him.

The point is that Blunt and Damon are considerably more intriguing than the film they are acting in. The scenes in which they talk, flirt, walk down the street are the most pleasing in The Adjustment Bureau.

Unhappily, minutes of the two performers conversing about acting, filmmaking, politics, etc. Menu Search. Latest Profile. Contact About. Written and directed by George Nolfi, based on a story by Philip K. George Nolfi screenplay Philip K. Dick short story "Adjustment Team". Top credits Director George Nolfi. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer The Adjustment Bureau. Featurette Video Photos Top cast Edit. Gregory P. Hitchen U. Coast Guard Officer as U. Coast Guard Officer as Capt. Michael Bloomberg Mayor Michael R.

Bloomberg as Mayor Michael R. Kar Political Consultant as Political Consultant. Susan D. Michaels Reporter as Reporter. George Nolfi. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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. 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 This movie written and directed by George Nolfi is based on a Dick story about a legion of "adjusters" who move a strange thing there and a known thing here, just to be sure everything proceeds according to plan. Whose plan? The adjusters aren't big on explanations. They're like undercover agents for the higher power of your choice. But the best-laid plans of mice and men sometimes stray.

Random chance barges in, and its interference must be corrected. In "The Adjustment Bureau," Matt Damon plays a congressional candidate named David Morris, who walks into a men's room he has every reason to believe is empty, and who should emerge from one of the stalls but Elise Sellas Emily Blunt. What was she doing there? You don't cross-examine a Meet Cute. The important thing is, these two people, who were never intended to meet, have that particular chemistry that means they're a perfect romantic match.

They know it, we know it, and when their eyes and lips meet, their stories become entangled. Phillip Dick was intrigued by devices that allowed him to examine the mechanisms by which life unfolds. I think he voted for free will in the short run the span of intelligent life on Earth, say , evolution for the middle distance things develop according to underlying principles and predestination in the long run the universe will entropy and cease.

A man and a woman whose eyes Meet Cute need only be concerned about the very short run. In the movie, David Morris becomes aware of certain men wearing suits and fedoras, who strangely start to appear in his life.

They explain that they work for a bureau that makes corrections when things go slightly wrong. For example, David and Elise were not intended to meet. What was she doing in the men's room, anyway?

For her sake and his, David must not see her again. OK, so this is where it gets intriguing. They do meet again, once again by pure chance. But this time, they recognize each other, you see, because they had met earlier. It is possible the second time they see each other was intended to be the first time, in which case if you follow me they would not necessarily even notice one another.