2009 · comedy · fantasy · coming-of-age
17 Again
Directed by Burr Steers1h 42m2009
On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.
Our read: 17 Again (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · fantasy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
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