Starring Sofia Black D'Elia, Jonny Weston, Allen Evangelista, Sam Lerner, Virginia Gardner
Directed by Dean Israelite
Reviewed by Dave Felts
Rating: (2.5/5)
What would happen if five teenager managed to build a time machine? Nothing very original apparently.
A high school nerd, David Raskin (Jonny Weston) dreams of going to MIT. He and his nerdy friend friends Quinn (Sam Lerner) and Adam (Allen Evangelista) are up to all sorts of nerdish hi-jinks, dutifully recorded by David's sister Christina (Virginia Gardner).
David's father is dead (one or both parents being dead is practically a requirement in any sort of Young Adult offering) and while poking through some of his father's old project stuff in the attic (Dad was apparently a nerd as well) David and Christina discover an old video camera.
Despite being in the attic for the last 8 years, the battery still holds a charge, so they fire it up to discover footage from David's 8th (or was it 9th) birthday party, the last time David ever saw his father. But wait! What's that in the mirror? Why it's David, present-day, seventeen year-old David, evidently an attendee to his own years-ago birthday. He also has an expression of near panic, which doesn't bode well....
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