17 Again 🎥 2009 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1989, 17-year-old star basketball player Mike O’Donnell finds out that his girlfriend, Scarlet Porter, is pregnant. She tells him about her pregnancy moments before his likely scholarship-clinching high-school championship basketball game. Mike plays the first few seconds of the game before walking off the court to go after Scarlet, abandoning his hopes of going to college and eventually having a professional basketball career. Years later, Mike, now in his thirties, finds his life stagnant and boring, and Scarlet has filed for divorce.

He moves in with his life long best friend Ned Gold, who is wealthy, geeky, and also unhappy. After being passed over for a promotion at work he believed he deserved, Mike expresses his frustration to his boss, resulting in him being fired. His high school-age children, 18-year-old Maggie and 16-year-old Alex, want nothing to do with him. Mike revisits the high school’s memorabilia case, finding his senior year team photo. A janitor comes by, and he vents about his life, saying he wished he had a do over.

Later that night, while driving in the rain, Mike comes across the janitor on a bridge who suddenly falls into the water. While attempting to look for him, Mike falls in himself, and resurfaces as his 17-year-old self. When he finally believes Mike is who he says he is, Ned theorizes that his magical transformation was caused by a mystical spirit guide who is trying to steer him on a better path. Mike enrolls in high school by posing as Mark Gold, Ned’s son. He plans to go to college on a basketball scholarship. As Mike befriends his own son, Alex, he discovers that he is being bullied. Mike also learns that his daughter Maggie has a boyfriend named Stan, who does not respect her and frequently torments Alex.

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