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• Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a take chances to rewrite his life when he tried to salvage a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a fourth dimension vortex.

• At 17 Mike O'Donnell is on top of the earth: he'due south the star of his high school basketball team, is a shoo-in for a college scholarship, and is dating his soul-mate, Scarlet. But at what's supposed to be his big game where a college lookout is checking him out, Scarlet reveals that she's pregnant. Mike decides to go out the game and asks Ruby-red to marry him, which she does. During their spousal relationship, Mike can merely whine almost the life he lost because he married her, so she throws him out. When he also loses his job, he returns to the only identify he'south happy at, his former loftier school. While looking at his high school photograph, a janitor asks him if he wishes he could be 17 again and he says yes. One night while driving he sees the janitor on a bridge ready to jump, and goes after him. When he returns to his friend Ned's house, where he has been staying, he sees that he is 17 once more. He decides to take this opportunity to get the life he lost.

• In 1989, teenager Mike O'Donnell is the star of Hayden High School'southward basketball team. On the 24-hour interval of the final game, Mike will exist observed and may win a scholarship to college. Still, his girlfriend Carmine tells him that she is pregnant and Mike does non play the game. Twenty years after, Mike is a complete loser who blames Crimson for his failures. He is non promoted to sales managing director later working sixteen years at the same company; Scarlet is divorcing him; his teen-anile son Alex and daughter Maggie hate him; and he is temporarily living with his best friend, the eccentric and immature millionaire Ned Aureate. Mike nostalgically visits Hayden where an former janitor talks to him about second chances in life. During the night, he sees the janitor jumping from a bridge into the river and he unsuccessfully tries to aid the man. He and so discovers that he is seventeen again. Further, he discovers that he has a second chance to ready his relationship with his family.

• 37 year old Mike O'Donnell is extremely disappointed with his life because of some of the choices he made when he was 17. His wife threw him out of the house his kids call back that he'southward a loser and desire goose egg to do with him, he lost his task. One small action gave him a another shot at his senior year in high schoolhouse. For his kids he goes from a loser of a dad to an amazing friend that gives them great advice. He also realizes the things that he didn't realize when he was actually 17. Seeing senior twelvemonth from a different signal of view makes him realize that doing your life over isn't as fun as it seems.

• What if you can get a 2nd adventure to go back in time & be a teenager again? Would you go dorsum to high school similar Mike whose life as an adult is not at all as it should be?His family'south falling autonomously & it takes a miracle to bring his life dorsum in society.

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Synopsis

• Popular high school senior Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) seemingly has information technology all. He is a star athlete headed direct for a college scholarship when he decides to give it up to settle down with his high school girlfriend Crimson is pregnant. 20 years later, an adult Mike (played by Matthew Perry) finds his life is non 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 however, and his relationships with his teenage children are nonexistent. After getting passed upwards for yet another promotion at work, he returns to his high school to reminisce over his basketball awards and the life he could take had. While he is reliving his glory days, he is approached past a janitor and shares with him how things were and then much better when he was 17. As Mike is driving home from the high school, he sees the mysterious janitor continuing on the ledge preparing to jump into the Los Angeles River. Mike rushes out of his motorcar to rescue him, but when he gets there, the janitor has vanished. What Mike doesn't realize is that he is about to autumn into the river and turn into his 17 year sometime self. Young Mike (Zac Efron) returns to Ned's house, where he has the difficult job of convincing Ned that he is in fact Mike. At a loss of what to do, Ned pretends to be Mike'due south father and they annals Mike back in high schoolhouse to end the life he never had the risk to alive. High schoolhouse presents a lot of new challenges for Mike, such as dressing cool, keeping up with the latest gadgets and making new friends. But nada compares to being in high school with his own children. He discovers that his daughter, Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg), is not nearly as innocent as he thought she was and his son, Alex (Sterling Knight), is the burden of the star athlete's jokes. But Mike's virtually difficult realization is that he hasn't been a very good male parent or husband. Mike befriends Alex and tries to instill him with enough confidence to join the basketball game squad. He gets close to Maggie'south obnoxious beau and does everything in his power to break them upward. Most importantly, he visits an unsuspecting Scarlet and rediscovers all the things that initially made him fall in love with her. You don't know what you accept until y'all lose it. Through his experiences, Mike realizes that he had called the perfect life he just never appreciated it. Now, he must figure out a manner to transform dorsum into his older cocky and win back his wife and kids. *Info from comingsoon.net*

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  In 1989, Michael O'Donnell was the star of the high-schoolhouse basketball team, with a college spotter in the bleachers ready to watch his title game and a scholarship guaranteed for him if he played well. Just as the game is about to start, he sees his girlfriend Scarlett past the bleachers. He blows her a kiss, then goes to her when she looks very troubled. She tries to pretend everything is fine, but finally she tells him she's meaning. The game starts, only he can't think of anything but Scarlett, and when he sees her leaving, he tosses the ball away and walks away from the game and the scholarship to marry her.

  Twenty years after, Mike's life is a mess. Scarlett has separated from him, forcing him to motility in with his high-school best friend Ned Gold, now a geeky millionaire software developer, and his kids Maggie and Alex are distant and want zilch to do with him. At his job, his boss passes him upwardly for a promotion in favor of a woman the boss likes who's far less competent, and Mike explodes at the boss and is fired. He stops past his old loftier school on the way home, sees his 1989 team photograph in the showcase, and reminisces virtually the life he threw away. Then he encounters a mysterious janitor who asks him if he really wishes he was a teenager back in loftier school again, and he does. On the way domicile, he sees the "janitor" apparently ready to jump from a span and he tries to stop him, but the janitor all of a sudden disappears and Mike falls in the river himself, where he'due south magically transformed back to age17.

  After he convinces Ned who he really is, Mike decides he's been given the chance to live his life over over again "just to do it right" -- to win the basketball game scholarship and get to higher. With Ned posing as his father, he re-enrolls in high school nether the name "Mark Gold," living with Ned in his mansion full of high-tech toys. Only as he starts to fit in to school life, he realizes his daughter is dating the sadistic basketball captain Stan, who only wants sex from her, and that Stan is also bullying and tormenting his son. Gradually, "Mark" realizes that the real reason he's been given another chance in life is to help his children and attempt to win back Scarlett's honey. He befriends Alex and discovers that his son has real talent in basketball and can hitting 3-point shots effortlessly. He works with Alex to sharpen the rest of his game then he can win a place on the squad and the girl of his dreams. Equally Alex and Marker practise shooting baskets together every 24-hour interval at Alex's house, Scarlett is amazed how much her son'southward new friend looks similar her ex-husband looked in 1989.

  Mark starts helping Scarlett landscape her back one thousand, because she hopes to outset a landscaping business. He gains a new appreciation for her talents, simply he frequently comes close to her or touches her in ways she considers inappropriate between an adult woman and a teenaged boy. He too comforts Maggie when Stan dumps her for refusing to "put out." He tells her that someday she'll find a guy who treasures her the way she deserves, merely he's horrified when he realizes Maggie is starting to think that guy is HIM. He tells her he can't get involved with her considering he's already in beloved with someone else, someone secret.

  The basketball game team wins a come up-from-backside game, with Mark doing a lot, but Alex makes the winning 3-point shot. Meanwhile, Ned has been smitten with Jane, the high schoolhouse principal, since the showtime day he went to her office to enroll his "son," but his geeky attempts to impress her accept done nothing but disgust her. Finally, in return for buying laptops for all the students in the school, she agrees to become to dinner with him on the same night that Marking has announced a party at his house to gloat winning the game. Marker tells only sure people nigh the party, but kids text it everywhere and the whole school shows up.

  Ned'southward romantic dinner with Jane is going nowhere until he finally admits that he'due south always been a loser with women. He's really simply a geek, obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. She slowly smiles, and starts talking to him in Elvish -- one of the languages in The Lord of the Rings -- and he realizes that she'southward also a Lord of the Rings fanatic. Later a seductive chat in Elvish, Ned and Jane go back to his house for romance, but they find Mark's party completely out of command with hundreds of kids everywhere. Scarlett is also there, looking for Alex, and Mark's feelings for her are so strong that he can't control himself and he tries to kiss her in forepart of all the kids. Scarlett is appalled and slaps him, then runs away with Mark post-obit her, shouting that he's her husband and the male parent of her children. Maggie and her friends all run into this and are disgusted, particularly Maggie, because Mark had told her he was in honey with someone secret, and now she sees him trying to buss her own female parent.

  The next morn, cleaning upwardly the chaos afterwards the political party, Ned reminds Mark that the hearing for Mike O'Donnell'southward final divorce decree with Scarlett is in 20 minutes, and they rush to the courtroom. Ned pretends to be Mike'due south lawyer, and they're being thrown out when Marking says he'due south in that location to read a letter of the alphabet that Mike has written to his wife. Scarlett agrees to hear the letter, and Marking reads it with emotional power in his voice that astonishes her, plus details about their courtship that only her husband could take known. Mark finishes past saying that, since he sees that she doesn't want him in her life anymore, he'southward content to let her go because he loves her and then much. Afterward Mark finishes and is forced to leave the court, Scarlett picks upwardly the "letter of the alphabet" and discovers it's just a slice of paper with directions to the courthouse on it. Marker wasn't reading a letter at all but somehow knew all the things he had told her. She asks for the divorce decree to exist postponed.

  Marking tries to forget about Scarlett and concentrates on basketball game, because winning the scholarship and going to college seem to exist the only thing he has left for him. On the day of the championship game, where Mark and Alex are playing and Maggie is cheerleading, Scarlett is looking at her high-schoolhouse yearbook and realizes that Mark doesn't simply expect similar to her husband at 17, he looks EXACTLY the same. And then Maggie reminds Scarlett she's supposed to bulldoze her to the game, and Scarlett stays to scout.

  As the game is about to get-go, Mark sees Scarlett in the bleachers. He blows her a kiss, using a gesture identical to the 1 Mike had used in 1989, when he was playing in the same title game and saw her standing by the bleachers. Scarlett finally realizes that Mark really IS her husband, somehow turned 17 again. She realizes all the reasons she loved him then and even so loves him, only she knows she can't peradventure make her life together with a 17 twelvemonth-old boy. Also, she realizes that knowing she's there in the bleachers watching him could put him in the same state of affairs every bit before, and she can't risk making him lose his college scholarship once again. She leaves, going downward the aforementioned corridor she used when she left the game in 1989.

  Mark sees Scarlett leaving, forgets most the game and walks abroad, just as he did in 1989. He easily the ball to Alex, proverb this time it'south his plough, and runs downward the corridor afterwards Scarlett. We see the mysterious janitor smiling in the stands, and past the fourth dimension Marking catches up to Scarlett, he'south the adult Mike O'Donnell again. Mike tells Scarlett he's fabricated a mess of his marriage because he spent the concluding 20 years resentful at her for losing him his chance to get to higher, merely at present he realizes his family is the just thing that matters to him, and he asks for another chance.

  A few days subsequently, Mike goes to Ned's house to get his stuff and return his key. He finds Ned in bed with Jane, both of them wearing Elf ears. Mike thanks Ned for all he's done, and Ned gives Mike a departing gift, a whistle for his new job, because Jane has made Mike the new coach of the high school basketball game team.

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