2010 · sci-fi · comedy · adventure
Hot Tub Time Machine
Directed by Steve Pink1h 41m2010
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
Our read: Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive sci-fi · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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