17 Again (2009)

Apr.21, 2009 in Comedy

Movie: 17 Again (2009)

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Director: Burr Steers
Release Date: 17 April 2009 (USA)
Run Time: 102 min
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual material and teen partying.

Tagline: Who says you’re only young once?

Trivia: Toward the end of filming is when Zac Efron had his appendicitis. It started out as a stomach ache but he had it checked out that night after filming and he had surgery that same night.

Goofs: Plot holes: Mike and Scarlett discover that Scarlett is pregnant when Mike is still 17 years old in 1989. The film then cuts forward to 2009, and sees Mike becoming 17 again and him being in the same class as his daughter, Maggie. However, if Maggie is indeed the child Scarlett was pregnant with at the beginning, she would be at least 19 years old in 2009, and therefore not in high school any .

Popular high school senior Mike O’Donnell (Zac Efron) seemingly has it all. He is a star athlete headed straight for a college scholarship when he decides to give it up to settle down with his high school girlfriend Scarlet is pregnant.

Twenty years later, an adult Mike (played by Matthew Perry) finds his life is not exactly what he expected. He is separated from his wife, Scarlett (Leslie Mann) and living with his wealthy software genius nerd and best friend Ned Freedman (Thomas Lennon), his career at a pharmaceutical company is at a stand still, and his relationships with his teenage children are nonexistent. After getting passed up for yet another promotion at work, he returns to his high school to reminisce over his basketball awards and the life he could have had. While he is reliving his glory days, he is approached by a janitor and shares with him how things were so much better when he was 17.

As Mike is driving home from the high school, he sees the mysterious janitor standing on the ledge preparing to jump into the Los Angeles River. Mike rushes out of his car to rescue him, but when he gets there, the janitor has vanished. What Mike doesn’t realize is that he is about to fall into the river and turn into his 17 year old self.

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