Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Giovanni Garcia
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Steve Carell, Tom Holland, Alison Brie, Connie Nielsen, Kathryn Newton
Plot: In 2024 After numerous failures and heartaches life has appeared to finally cut ambitious and hard working, Jack Matthews (Andrew Garfield) a much needed break. Following years of living in a low end apartment and struggling to pay the rent and provide for his long suffering girlfriend, Jessica (Alison Brie) Jack has finally made it big when he acquires some newfound wealth after the success of his up and coming tech business and he uses this money to buy a new larger apartment for himself and Jessica. But in Jack spending most of his adult life pursuing his dream of being a tech mogul, this has made him an anti social workaholic hugely alienating and separating him from his family and friends including Jessica and his geeky younger brother in college, Samson (Tom Holland)
Jessica eventually grows fed up with being ignored and rejected and breaks up with Jack, this soon sends Jack on a downward spiral and into a deep depression.
Jack's life is forever changed however when one night after closing down his tech building for the night he comes into contact with, Edward Thomas Johnson (Steve Carell) a middle aged man suffering from depression who is preparing to commit suicide by jumping off the rooftop of the building. Jack is able to talk Edward out of taking his own life, and the two soon strike up a friendship bonding in their mutual love of technology, science, and old cheesy science fiction movies.
Realizing the inner turmoil that Edward is going through, Jack decides to help him deter his course of choosing death over life to help make him happier. it is revealed that the reason why Edward has suicidal thoughts is because he also like Jack had dreams and aspirations of being an inventor and do the largely thought impossible task of creating a time machine. While Edward made some progress in achieving this goal, his obsession with completing the machine left him growing colder and more distant towards the two people he loved more than anything else in the world, his loving and supporting wife, Amelia (Connie Nielsen), and teenage daughter, Riley (Kathryn Newton) who both tragically died in a car accident after Riley's high school graduation Two years earlier.
After their deaths of Amelia and Riley, Edward completely abandoned his time machine project, remorsefully lamenting that all of the time he spent on the time machine could have been spent with his family and wishes that he could go back and see them even for only a second.
Finding himself incredibly moved and saddened by Edward's story, Jack realizes that he is taking the same path as Edward by alienating his loved ones and does not believe in the concept of time travel but at the same time wants Edward to find peace and solace.
Jack enlists Samson who he hasn't talked to in years to help him in finishing Edward's time machine, Samson quickly accepts seeing it as a chance to bond with his long estranged older brother and just out of fascination with time machines in general. With Samson's smarts and Jack's resources and after some trial and error, the two are able to build a fully functional time machine. While working with Samson, Jack finds himself connecting a lot with his younger brother and is guilty over the fact that he did not try to reach out and bond with him sooner. Jack introduces Samson to Edward and reveals to him that they have finally finished the time machine, Edward is initially shocked and angry with the two that they even went through with the thing that brought him so much pain and regret. But after realizing the prospect of finally being able to see his family again, Edward reluctantly agrees to go into the time machine.
Jack, Edward, and Samson eventually are able to travel back in time to 4:15 P.M June 23, 2022, and Edward immediately directs the two to his home where they discover that Amelia and Riley have already left for Riley's graduation. Now the trio are in a race against the clock to make it to the high school before the accident occurs. But unfortunately by the time the guys make it to the high school they discover the wreckage of the accident indicating that their too late. Edward frantically rushes to the car but time begins to alter and the three are sent back into the present.
Edward is furious with Jack that he made him watch his wife and daughter die, Jack insists that he was only trying to help him, Edward argues that he is not some charity case that Jack can magically cure just so he can feel better about himself and questions whether the friendship they shared was genuine at all. Edward soon storms off, leaving Jack and Samson scrambling, Samson attempts to try to convince Jack to try to add some tweaks to the time machine, but a defeated Jack apologizes to Samson for wasting his time and tells him to go home.
Samson does not goes home however and spends the next few days trying every different method he can in order to turn back time, and after many mishaps is able to turn back the day's time from seconds, to minutes, to hours and is eventually able to reverse the time machine day's time to go back a full three hours before the accident occurred. But after tinkering with the time machine, Samson discovers that the time machine can go only back for that specific day one time which means no do overs on that trip. Samson excitedly calls Jack to tell him about the news and arranges a meeting for both him and Edward. After some pondering from both men, the two patch things up and apologize to each other, with Edward telling Jack that he appreciates everything he has done for him and that he is grateful for meeting Jack on that faithful day, and that it finally give Edward a reason to live. The trio then enter the time machine for the final time with the knowledge that they can not go travel back again after this trip.
The group travels back at 2:14 p.m, June 23, 2022 where they enter an intense race against the clock to the school's graduation, a security guard attempts to stop the group from getting into the school but Jack punches him in the face allowing time for Edward to get inside the school. They finally arrive to the school's gymnasium with minutes to spare, where Edward sits next to Amelia to watch Riley take her diploma. After the graduation Edward apologizes to Amelia and Riley saying that he is sorry for being a bad husband and dad and that he will never take this second chance for granted, Amelia is confused but ultimately accepts Edward's apology and the two kiss and embrace with Riley. Jack and Samson look on with content, with Jack telling Samson that when they go back to the present they need to hang out sometime. Jack and Samson attempt to bring Edward back to the present but he refuses saying that he is not going to mess up his life this time thanking Jack and Samson for everything.
Jack and Samson soon return to present day without Edward, and discover that they altered their current timeline. Edward has a five year old son who he names Jack, Riley is Samson's girlfriend, they met at the college that Samson goes to. Jack went to the jail for assaulting the security guard but was bailed out by Jessica, and Jack and Jessica's relationship is stronger than ever.
Jack is satisfied with his life at this point, although he is not tech mogul anymore he has learned the most valuable thing that trumps any sort of accomplishment being surrounded by people that love and care for you.
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