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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (styled as FAQ About Time Travel) is a 2009 science fiction comedy feature film. It is directed by Gareth Carrivick from a script by Jamie Mathieson, and stars Anna Faris, Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton and Dean Lennox Kelly.
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The film follows three social outcasts (two nerds and a cynic) as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion. The opening credits appear in outline block letters in light blue against the background of space, in the same style as the Superman films.

It was released in the UK and Ireland on 24 April 2009.

Frequently asked questions about time travel movie Cast:

Anna Faris as Cassie, the time traveler
Chris O'Dowd as Ray, the geek
Dean Lennox Kelly as Pete, the cynic
Marc Wootton as Toby, the dreamer
Meredith MacNeill as Millie, a second time traveler
Dario Attanasio as Monkey Mayhem Promoter
The film begins with Ray (Chris O'Dowd) being fired from his job at a local theme park. His two friends Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly) and Toby (Marc Wootton) dress in brightly coloured fluffy dinosaur costumes to promote "Dinoburgers" at the theme park restaurant. Pete has a side bet with Toby that Ray will not be able to go five minutes without mentioning time travel, which Pete wins.

After work they chat in a cafe, then go to the cinema. Leaving the film they complain, "How hard can it be to make a film that doesn't suck?" and that someone should write a letter to Hollywood. Toby declares that he has many great ideas and reads some from his notebook, which the others promptly mock. He then pretends he was just giving them a a really terrible idea to see if they'd go for it. In the pub he writes the letter of complaint, with a laundry list of issues including: remakes, Jude Law, Han shot first, and "more Firefly and/or Serenity." He tears the completed letter out of his notebook and leaves it on the table.

To avoid the queue Ray goes to the bar in another section the pub. A girl (Anna Faris) catches his attention, and she talks to him about time travel. He assumes she must be a prank setup by his friends. She explains she is a time traveller, and that her job is to find and repair "time leaks" and stop "editors" (rival time travellers who eliminate famous people at their finest moment instead of allowing them to live on and slowly decline).

Pete goes out to the bathroom and upon returning finds the bar full of dead bodies, including his own bloody corpse. He runs to the bathroom, and when he leaves the room again, he has returned to his own time. He wonders if this is the time leak Cassie has mentioned.

The others then follow him to the bathroom and retrace his steps, in precise detail. The bar seems normal at first but they notice people already at their tables- themselves from earlier that evening. When asked what to do, Ray replies, "This is not my thing. No, my thing is sitting on my arse reading books about this shit, not actually being in it."

Ray realises Cassie is still there and goes to talk to her. Cassie doesn't believe him and leaves out the door to the garden, only to immediately return, her hair and clothes having changed. She explains she had been gone for 6 months, but came back just one second later.

They go talk in the garden, Cassie reassures him there is no risk to the timeline as no one is due to go out there for 20 minutes. After only a few minutes a kissing couple come out into the garden unexpectedly, and Cassie nervously reassures him it is all fine. Ray looks away momentarily, and Cassie has disappeared.

Rather than risk altering the timeline, the three wait in the cupboard and let time pass until their previous selves go into the bathroom the first time, which the trio eventually do. After waiting for a half hour, the three once again need to go to the bathroom, and they use the women's toilets to avoid bumping into themselves. The leave but arrive in the distant future. Pete tries to go back into the women's bathroom to reverse the trip, but appears again almost immediately, haggard and with a full grown beard and warning them not to go in there. When they go back to the bar to find weapons, it is damaged and covered in a layer of ash and dust. The gather a few meagre weapons and find a packet of crisps with an expiration date of May 2094. Ray wants to look around and explore, but Toby is eager to leave as soon as possible. On the back wall of the pub they see a mural, showing the three of them sitting in the pub dressed as they are now. Startled by a noise, they speculate that it could be the sound of a giant insect. It turns out to be just a homeless person walking by pushing a squeaky shopping trolley, who gets his head bitten off by a giant ant.

They wait in the bathroom afraid to go further, Pete hints at what happened to him while he was gone in the giant forest. They hear a noise and all three hide, and see their past selves trace Pete's steps and try to travel in time. They then run out into the garden to find the place full of people dressed just like them. It turns out to be an "imagineer" fan theme night based on them, Pete even wins a prize for his costume (the prize for best Toby is won by a much fatter man). A second time traveller Millie shows up and helps send them back to their own time.

They overhear themselves still talking about the letter to Hollywood and so decide to get some pints and wait it out. After a round they get back to their original seats and read the note on the back of the letter that will make them famous. Ray again needs to go to the bathroom but to be safe decided to avoid the toilets go to garden instead. Cassie appears again, with a different hair style and clothes. Ray thanks Cassie and Millie and the people at Causal Adjust. Cassie doesn't know any Millie and realises she must be an editor sent to kill them at their finest moment, like Kevin Costner just after Dances With Wolves. Cassie attempts to go back and fix the problem but cannot leave, so she returns to the bar, finding Millie there. Pete fights with Toby to destroy the note, but they are stopped by Millie who pins the note under her heel. Millie makes Toby an offer "die and live on as legends or live a long life anonymously" but Toby defies her. Millie kills Toby and sets off a blast killing everyone in the pub. Ray makes one last move trying to reach for the note, he doesn't reach it but instead spills a pint, which luckily destroys the note. Time rewinds and things seem to have gone back to normal.

The three friends walk home and ponder if the adventure is over. Cassie then appears through a big glowing time portal, her hair now long and blond, dressed in leathers and wearing a helmet. She reveals that she has been dating for 2 years, but that they have only 14 hours to save the earth, and they have to go with her to a parallel universe. The lads are reluctant, but Ray convinces them to jump into the portal. They reappear from around the corner only now they have Ray and Pete, and a second Pete.

After the credits Ray and the 2 Petes hear a shout "get back freak" and Toby runs past being chased by a strange version of himself. Pete has the last words: "This is all getting a little bit too complicated."
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