Project Almanac 🎥 2015 Movie Info

Plot Summary

High school senior and aspiring inventor David Raskin is admitted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but is unable to afford its exorbitant tuition. Upon learning his mother, Kathy, will be forced to sell the family’s house, David enlists his sister Christina and his friends Adam Lee and Quinn Goldberg to search through the belongings of his father Ben, an inventor who died on David’s seventh birthday, in the hopes of finding something David can use to get a scholarship, filming themselves all the while. He finds an old camera with a video recording of his seventh birthday party, in which he briefly spots himself in a reflection.

Noting how he appears to be reaching for a basement light switch in the reflection, David and his friends enter the basement, which his father had forbidden. The group pull the switch, activate a trapdoor, and find blueprints for a time travel device that Ben was developing for a project called “Project Almanac” for DARPA, a government agency, which allows them to build a functional time machine. They successfully send a toy car back in time, but cause a blackout in their neighborhood. When they get noticed by David’s crush Jessie Pierce, whose car’s fuel cell they use to power the device, they recruit her into their experiment.

The expanded group travel back to the day before and break into Quinn’s house, where he draws on the back of his sleeping past self’s neck, but the past Quinn awakens, causing a feedback loop that nearly erases them both from the timeline. Following this, they agree to use the machine for personal gain on the condition that they don’t time jump solo. At first, the machine’s capacity would only allow them to time jump three weeks into the past at most, so they test it further by giving Quinn another chance to succeed at his science presentation, Chris getting back at a bully, as well as winning the lottery.

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