
Who says you're only young once?
Plot outline
Personal notes
Cast
- Zac Efron
- Leslie Mann
- Thomas Lennon
- Matthew Perry
- Tyler Steelman
- Allison Miller
- Sterling Knight
- Michelle Trachtenberg
- Adam Gregory
- Hunter Parrish
- Mario Cassem
- Kat Graham
- Tiya Sircar
- Melissa Ordway
- Melora Hardin
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Josie Loren
- Jim Gaffigan
- Randy Gordon
- Collette Wolfe
- Tommy Dewey
- Linda Miller
- Lorna Scott
- Kodi Kitchen
- Ellis Williams
- Diana Maria Riva
- Jeff Snyder
- Antonio Lewis Todd
- Angee Hughes
- Ed Ackerman
- Will Schaub
- Loren Lester
- Alexander George
- Nicole Sullivan
- Margaret Cho
- Larry Poindexter
- Bubba Lewis
- Chris Valenti
- G. Lane Hillman
- Hope Riley
- Jeanine Jackson
- Gregory Sporleder
- Keith Oney
- Leonard Wu
- Liana Blackburn
- Lindsay Taylor
- Danielle E. Hawkins
- Shelby Rabara
- Katrina Norman
- Tiana Brown
- Rhapsody
- Taisha Monique Clark
- Vanessa Chester
- Amber Estrada
- Chanel Malvar
- Galen Hooks
- Tyne Stecklein
- Kiara Nicole Ely
- Mihran Kirakosian
- Dres Reid
- Terrance Harrison
- Rachele Brooke Smith
- Christopher Scott
- Eric McCoy
- Raymond Chacon
- Megan Galiber
- Renee Krieg
- Jordan Schatz
- Jaclyn Matfus
- Justin C. Todd
- Daniel Bateman
- Laura Linda Bradley
- Michael Bretten
- Keenan R. Carter
- Joshua Carver
- Jason Castle
- David Cohen
- Hugh Douglas
- Albert Blake Fernandez
- Garret Gerlich
- Casey Graf
- Jesse Heiman
- Brandon G. Holley
- Benjamin David Howard
- Zephaniah Israel
- Mackenzie Jamieson
- Micah J. Jones
- Erica LaRose
- Darin Maddox
- Paul McGee
- Priscilla Monnier
- Leo Montiel
- Lucas Mroczkowski
- Alan Mueting
- Jonathan Dunkerley Newkerk
- Ladell Parks
- Martin Pierron
- Kate Rappoport
- Leonard Jonathan Ruebe
- Sagine
- Justin Sandler
- Jacob Saylor
- David Tran
- Julian Vada
- Jobeth Wagner
- Maria Zambrana
Plots
Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.
At 17 Mike O'Donnell is on top of the world: he's 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 scout is checking him out, Scarlet reveals that she's pregnant. Mike decides to leave the game and asks Scarlet to marry him, which she does. During their marriage, Mike can only whine about the life he lost because he married her, so she throws him out. When he also loses his job, he returns to the only place he's happy at, his old high school. While looking at his high school photo, 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 again. 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's basketball team. On the day of the final game, Mike will be observed and may win a scholarship to college. However, his girlfriend Scarlet tells him that she is pregnant and Mike does not play the game. Twenty years later, Mike is a complete loser who blames Scarlet for his failures. He is not promoted to sales manager after working sixteen years at the same company; Scarlet is divorcing him; his teen-aged son Alex and daughter Maggie hate him; and he is temporarily living with his best friend, the eccentric and immature millionaire Ned Gold. Mike nostalgically visits Hayden where an old 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 help the man. He then discovers that he is seventeen again. Further, he discovers that he has a second chance to fix 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 think that he's a loser and want nothing to do with him, he lost his job. One small action gave him a another shot at his senior year in high school. 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 year from a different point of view makes him realize that doing your life over isn't as fun as it seems.
What if you can get a second chance to go back in time & be a teenager again? Would you go back to high school like Mike whose life as an adult is not at all as it should be?His family's falling apart & it takes a miracle to bring his life back in order.