In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path Fight for your fate. Rated PG for brief strong language, some sexuality and a violent image. Did you know Edit. Trivia The phone number given to Matt Damon by Emily Blunt in the movie is owned by Universal Studios and has appeared in other films distributed by the company Definitely, Maybe , Scott Pilgrim vs.
If called, it will ring indefinitely. Goofs After they meet for the first time after the wedding, and Elise leaves the bus, David takes a call on a Samsung cell phone. After a cut away, he is speaking on his Blackberry. Quotes [last lines] Harry Mitchell : Most people live life on the path we set for them, too afraid to explore any other.
Crazy credits Special Thanks: The Chairman. User reviews Review. Top review. Intriguing and Ambiguous Story. In New York, the prominent politician David Norris Matt Damon is disputing the election for the Senate but his past of bad boy makes him lose the election.
He meets the stranger Elise Sellas Emily Blunt hidden in the Waldorf's toilet and she tells that she had crashed a party and the security guards are chasing her. They start a conversation and they immediately fall in love with each other. However the guards find her and David does not see her again. However she inspires him to make a remarkable speech. One day, David is traveling by bus and he meets Elise again. She gives her phone number to him and David promises to call her.
However, strangers wearing hats approach to David and tell that they belong to the Adjustment Bureau and Elise and David must be kept apart.
They destroy the piece of paper with her phone number and David is unable to contact Elise. Three years later, David sees Elise walking on the sidewalk. He gets out of the bus to meet her and he learns that she is a dancer.
But the strangers use their abilities to keep them apart. What is the reason why David and Elise can not be together? The intriguing story is ambiguous; the chemistry between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt is wonderful; and it is always great to see Terence Stamp.
My vote is seven. FAQ 4. Is "The Adjustment Bureau" based on a book? What powers do the bureau members have? 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 Finally, Richardson tells David he is not meant to meet Elise again, burns her phone number, and tells David to forget her.
For the next three years, David takes the same bus every day, hoping to see Elise. He encounters her one day and they reconnect. The Bureau tries to stop him from building his relationship with her, causing their schedules to separate them. David races across town, fighting the Bureau's abilities to "control his choices" to ensure he will meet Elise again. During the chase, The Bureau uses doors to travel, opening inconspicuous doors that lead to another location blocks away.
Richardson discovers that David and Elise "were meant to be together in an earlier version of the plan", and Harry speculates on whether or not the plan is always correct. David and Elise spend an evening at a party, connecting when David tells her he became a politician after the loss of his mother and brother.
They spend the night together, expressing their bond the next morning. The Bureau has Thompson formerly called "the Hammer" take authority regarding David's adjustment. He takes David to a warehouse, where David argues he has the right to choose his own path. Thompson says that they gave humanity free will after the height of the Roman Empire, but humanity caused the Dark Ages. The Bureau took control again and created the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. When free will was returned around it resulted in two world wars and the near destruction of the planet with a nuclear conflict.
Thompson releases him, and he runs to Elise's performance at her dance studio. Thompson follows, and tells him that if he stays with Elise, he will ruin his political future as President of the United States and also ruin Elise's future as a world-famous dancer and choreographer; with David, Elise will be limited to teaching dance to children.
To make a point, he uses his adjustment power to cause Elise to fall and sprain her ankle. Overwhelmed with his future in jeopardy and faced with hurting Elise's future, David abandons her at the hospital.
Eleven months later, David runs for election again and sees an announcement of Elise's imminent wedding. Harry, feeling guilty for earlier events, contacts David via secret meetings in the rain and near water.
David learns from Harry that the Bureau's weakness is water, allowing them to meet without the Bureau finding out. Harry reveals that Thompson exaggerated the consequences of David and Elise's possible relationship, and teaches David to use the doors so he may stop Elise's wedding. He gives David his hat, empowering David to use the doors.
David finds Elise in the bathroom of the courthouse where she is to be wed. Initially furious and hurt after his earlier desertion, Elise is shocked when David reveals the Bureau's existence to her, and shows her how he travels through doors. They are chased across New York. Elise wavers, but follows David. They go through the door to the Bureau headquarters.
Eventually, they are trapped on a rooftop above New York, with Bureau members closing in. They declare their love for each other, embrace into a passionate kiss before David can be reset. When they let go of each other, the Bureau members have disappeared.
Thompson appears, but is interrupted by Harry, who shows him a new, revised plan from the Chairman for David and Elise: a plan page; one half which shows where their paths were, heading side-by-side into a blank page starting just past their new current moment. Harry, after commending both of them for showing such devotion to each other, takes his hat back and tells David and Elise they are free to "take the stairs".
The film concludes with David and Elise walking through the streets, holding hands, accompanied a voice-over from Harry, speculating that the Chairman's plan may be simply to get humanity to a point where they can write their own plan for themselves.
George Nolfi was working on another script when his longtime friend and producing partner, Michael Hackett, brought up Philip K. They were certain that they wanted Damon as their lead, and Nolfi began to write the part of his protagonist with Damon in mind. He told the filmmakers that if future drafts looked as good, he would be ready to join.
I was a big believer in him and felt he could do it. Nolfi took the opportunity to polish the idea before revisiting the project with Damon during The Bourne Ultimatum, which Nolfi also co-wrote. He saw what he wanted to do with this piece. Since Damon and Nolfi had both worked previously with producer Chris Moore, they agreed that he would be a great partner with whom they could navigate the development of this ambitious project.
I also loved that the material crosses a number of genres. There are thriller elements, action and a great love story—as well as a personal crisis about what you believe in and who are you going to be. The producer, who first partnered with Nolfi on The Sentinel, worked with the director for more than a year and mapped out how to physically shoot the numerous set pieces and locations written into the script as the production navigated across Manhattan. Carraro, with his extensive experience in visual effects, understood that Nolfi required the effects be seamless in order to work.
For his main character, Nolfi imagined a charismatic and popular Democratic congressman from the rough-and-tumble streets of Brooklyn. If he chooses to stay on his career path, he can actually, under the right circumstances, do great things for millions of people.
He is one of the few guys out there who literally becomes the character. Not just for himself, but he feels like he brought all these people along for the ride and let them down.
David finds her charming and irresistible, while she recognizes him as the popular politico who is about to lose the election.
He is instantly, and fatefully, drawn to her and starts to fall head over heels in love…something The Adjustment Bureau never intended. For the next several years, David will chase the elusive Elise and try and outwit what the men controlled by Fate have planned for him. And it could cost him, and her, everything. So who exactly is this group who manipulates us from a position of unseen, immutable power?
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