The Adjustment Bureau Movie Review Summary

David Norris is a young politician who has just lost his bid for the Senate. Dejected, he goes to the bathroom, where he encounters a young beautiful dancer named Elise. She inspires him to be remarkably frank in his concession speech, which reinvigorates the pundits to predict a successful run in his future. Some time later, David encounters Elise on a bus and gets her phone number. However, when he arrives to a meeting, he finds the room swarmed with men in suits examining the bodies of Norris' campaign workers, seemingly frozen in time. David runs but is captured by these men, who reveal that they are The Adjustment Bureau, a collective of beings (modern people often refer to them as "angels") who insure that the plan of their boss is followed. David's encounter with Elise was never supposed to happen, so they remove her number from his life, and tell him his memory will be erased if he ever tells a single person about their existence. Years later, on the verge of his next senate run, he bumps into Elise yet again, and they plan to meet. Despite the Bureau's best efforts to throw each of them off of their course of action, David and Elise meet and fall in love officially. The Bureau warns David that he is meant to become President of the United States, but if he stays with Elise, he will ruin both his and her careers. David chooses to ignore their warning and runs for his life with Elise, the Bureau hot on his trail to erase the memories of them both.
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