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2009 American film by Burr Steers

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Directed by Burr Steers
Written by Jason Filardi
Produced by
  • Adam Shankman
  • Jennifer Gibgot
Starring
  • Zac Efron
  • Leslie Isle of man
  • Thomas Lennon
  • Michelle Trachtenberg
  • Matthew Perry
Cinematography Tim Suhrstedt
Edited by Padraic McKinley
Music by Rolfe Kent

Production
companies

  • New Line Cinema
  • Offspring Entertainment
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures

Release engagement

  • April 17, 2009 (2009-04-17)

Running time

105 minutes
Land United States
Language English
Upkeep $40 million[i] [2]
Box part $139.five one thousand thousand[2]

17 Again is a 2009 American fantasy comedy film directed by Burr Steers. The picture show follows a 37-year-old human named Mike (Matthew Perry) who becomes his 17-year-old cocky (Zac Efron) later a take chances accident. The film also stars Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Michelle Trachtenberg, Melora Hardin and Sterling Knight in supporting roles. The moving-picture show was released in the United States on April 17, 2009. Information technology received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $139 1000000.

Plot [edit]

In 1989, 17-year-one-time star athlete Mike O'Donnell's girlfriend Scarlet Porter tells him that she is pregnant, merely moments earlier his probable scholarship-clinching high-school title basketball game. Mike plays the start few seconds of the game, then walks off the court and goes after Scarlet, abandoning his hopes of going to college and achieving a career that could support their future. Twenty years later, 37-year-old Mike finds his life stagnant and boring, abandoning whatever project he starts. Cherry, now his wife and mother of their two children, has filed for divorce, forcing him to move in with his geeky, nevertheless extremely wealthy, best friend, Ned Gold. He has quit his job subsequently he is passed over for a promotion he believed he deserves, and his loftier-school-historic period kids, 19-yr-old Maggie and 16-year-old Alex, want cypher to do with him. After, while driving, an encounter on a bridge with a janitor transforms Mike dorsum into his 17-year-one-time self.

After convincing Ned of his identity, Ned believes that Mike's transformation was caused by a mystical spirit guide who is trying to steer him on a amend path. Mike enrolls in high school posing as Marking Gilded, Ned's son, and plans to go to higher on a basketball game scholarship. Every bit he befriends his bullied son and discovers that his daughter has a boyfriend, Stan, who does not respect her and frequently torments Alex, Mike comes to believe that his mission is to assist them.

Through their kids, Mike spends time with Red, who notes his remarkable resemblance to her husband, only rationalizes it every bit an odd coincidence. Deciding to also try and fix his relationship with Scarlet, Mike begins to finish (under the pretense of getting "volunteer credit") all of the garden projects he abandoned equally an adult. He does his best to separate Stan and Maggie while also encouraging Alex to be more confident and then he can make the basketball team and go out with a daughter he has a crush on named Nicole. Mike has difficulty resisting his desire for Scarlet despite the relationship's clear inappropriateness. Ned, meanwhile, begins to pursue the school'south main Jane Masterson through increasingly improvident stunts in guild to win her affections, which she adamantly rebukes, though she agrees to a date subsequently he offers to purchase laptops for the schoolhouse.

On their date, Jane is completely unimpressed with Ned until he drops the "sophisticated rich-guy" persona and admits he is actually a geek. Jane then reveals her own enthusiasm for geek culture past speaking to him in Elvish, and the two hitting information technology off. Mike throws a party to celebrate a basketball game win at Ned's house while Ned is out with Jane, where he confronts Stan, who had recently dumped Maggie for not sleeping with him. Mike gets knocked out and wakes up to Maggie trying to seduce him. Mike tells his daughter that he is in love with someone else and Maggie leaves, much to Mike'southward relief. Ruby-red arrives at the political party worried most her kids attending, but Mike shows her that Alex has finally managed to get together with his beat. The ii take an intimate conversation where Mike, caught up in the moment, tries to kiss her. Disgusted, she storms off as Mike tries unsuccessfully to explain his true identity.

On the day of the courtroom hearing to finalize Ruddy and Mike'due south divorce, Mike makes ane last try to win her back (as Mark) past reading a supposed letter from Mike. He states that although he couldn't gear up things right in the showtime of his life, it doesn't change the fact that he nonetheless loves her. After he exits, Blood-red notices that the "letter of the alphabet" is actually the directions to the courtroom and she begins to grow curious. Every bit a result, she postpones the divorce by a month. Frustrated that he could not salvage his spousal relationship, Mike decides to once again pursue a scholarship and move on with a new life. During a high school basketball game, Mike reveals himself to Blood-red. Every bit Scarlet runs away, Mike decides to hunt her down, just like he did in 1989, merely not earlier handing the ball off to his son. Mike is then transformed back into his 37-year-old self, and happily reunites with Cerise, saying that she was the best decision he ever fabricated.

As Mike prepares for his first solar day as the new bus at his kids' schoolhouse, Ned, who has successfully started a relationship with Jane, gifts him a whistle, both happy with their new starts in life.

Cast [edit]

  • Matthew Perry/Zac Efron every bit Mike O'Donnell/Mark Gold: Perry portrays Mike at age 37, while Efron portrays Mike at age 17 in the opening flashback from 1989 and later on Mike has undergone his magical transformation into posing as Mark Gold, son of his future friend Ned.
  • Leslie Mann/Allison Miller equally Scarlet O'Donnell: Mike'southward soon-to-be quondam wife and the mother of his children. Mann plays Cherry-red equally an adult and Miller plays Scarlet as a teen in the opening flashback from 1989.
  • Thomas Lennon/Tyler Steelman as Ned Gold: Mike's all-time friend. Lennon plays the adult Ned, while Steelman portrays Ned in the opening flashback from 1989.
  • Michelle Trachtenberg as Margaret Sarah "Maggie" O'Donnell: Mike and Ruby'due south xix-yr-sometime girl. Her formulation was the reason Mike chose to abandon his dreams and ally Crimson. She dates Stan.
  • Sterling Knight as Alex O'Donnell: Mike and Ruby'southward sixteen-year-old son. He is harshly abused by Stan.
  • Melora Hardin as Principal Jane Masterson: principal of the high school that Mike, Scarlet and Ned used to attend, and Maggie, Alex and "Marking" currently attends. She is likewise Ned'southward love interest.
  • Hunter Parrish as Stan: Maggie'southward aggressive and toxic boyfriend who bullies Alex fifty-fifty in his house.
  • Nicole Sullivan as Naomi (pronounced "Nay-o-me"): Carmine's best friend
  • Kat Graham, Tiya Sircar and Melissa Ordway as Jamie, Samantha and Lauren: the three girls who are friends with Maggie, and constantly trying to flirt with "Marker".
  • Brian Doyle-Murray as Janitor: the magical spirit guide who makes the transformation possible.
  • Josie Loren equally Nicole: the head cheerleader and Alex'south crush.
  • Jim Gaffigan as Coach Tater: the high school basketball game coach who has been at that place for 20 years.
  • Margaret Cho as Mrs. Dell: a teacher

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional response [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes the picture has an blessing rating of 56% based on 149 reviews, with an average rating of 5.forty/x. The site'southward critics consensus reads, "Though it uses a well-worn formula, 17 Again has simply plenty Zac Efron charm to result in a harmless, pleasurable teen comedy."[three] On Metacritic, the moving picture has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on reviews from 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the moving picture an average course of "A−" on an A+ to F calibration.[v]

Roger Ebert gave the moving-picture show 3 stars out of four, writing: "17 Once again is pleasant, harmless PG-13 amusement, with a plot a little more surprising and acting a niggling better than I expected."[half-dozen] Justin Chang of Variety wrote: "Zac Efron's squeaky-make clean tweener-bait profile is unlikely to be threatened by 17 Once again, an energetic merely earthbound comic fantasy that borrows a few moves, if little inspiration, from Big and Information technology's a Wonderful Life."[7]

Box office [edit]

The film was projected to accept in around $twenty million in its opening weekend.[viii] Opening in 3,255 theaters in the U.s. and Canada, the picture grossed $23.seven million ranking #one at the box office, with 70% of the audience consisting of immature females.[9] By the end of its run, 17 Again grossed $64.ii meg in North America and $72.i one thousand thousand internationally, totaling $136.3 million worldwide.[ten]

Soundtrack [edit]

17 Again: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on April 21, 2009, by New Line Records.[11]

Track listing [edit]

  1. "On My Own" by Vincent Vincent and The Villains
  2. "Can't Say No" past The Helio Sequence
  3. "L.E.Due south. Artistes" by Santigold
  4. "Naïve" past The Kooks
  5. "This Is Love" by Toby Lightman
  6. "You Really Wake Upward the Love in Me" by The Knuckles Spirit
  7. "The Greatest" by Cat Power
  8. "Rich Girls" past The Virgins
  9. "This Is for Real" by Motion City Soundtrack
  10. "Drop" by Ying Yang Twins
  11. "Cherish" by Kool & The Gang
  12. "Bust a Movement" by Immature MC
  13. "Danger Zone" past Kenny Loggins

Boosted music credits [edit]

  • "Child" by The Pretenders
  • "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit
  • "The Underdog" by Spoon
  • "Loftier Schoolhouse Never Ends" past Bowling for Soup (Used in motion-picture show trailer/commercial)
  • "Push Information technology Fergasonic (DJ Axel Mashup)" by Fergie, Salt-n-Pepa, JJ Fad

The orchestral score was written by Rolfe Kent and orchestrated by Tony Blondal. Information technology was recorded at Skywalker Sound.

Adaptation [edit]

A Southward Korean television receiver series titled 18 Over again based on the film aired on JTBC from September 21 to November x, 2020.[12]

Run across also [edit]

  • Big, 1988 comedy drama film about a male child who becomes a total-grown homo
  • A Afar Neighborhood, a 1990s Japanese manga almost an adult re-living his teenage life
  • Seventeen Again, 2000 American fantasy–comedy film about two grandparents who are turned 17 years sometime
  • xiii Going on thirty, 2004 American romantic comedy moving picture well-nigh a thirteen year one-time girl who of a sudden turns 30
  • Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993 American comedy film almost a father who disguises himself to get closer to his estranged family
  • Piffling, 2022 American comedy film nearly an evil boss who becomes a piddling girl

References [edit]

  1. ^ Ben Fritz (2009-04-20). "'17 Again' is No. ane at weekend box office". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2014-05-10. Retrieved 2021-01-20 . cost just over $40 one thousand thousand
  2. ^ a b "17 Once again (2009) - Financial Data". The Numbers.
  3. ^ 17 Again at Rotten Tomatoes Fandango Media
  4. ^ "17 Again Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2021-01-15 .
  5. ^ Josh Rottenberg (July 30, 2020). "Box Office Study: '17 Again' handily wins the weekend". Entertainment Weekly. audiences were more favorably inclined, giving information technology a strong A− CinemaScore.
  6. ^ Ebert, Roger (April 15, 2009). "17 Again Movie Review & Film Summary". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Chang, Justin (9 Apr 2009). "17 Once more". Variety.
  8. ^ Fritz, Ben (2009-04-17). "Zac Efron and '17 Once more' expected to rule box office". Los Angeles Times.
  9. ^ McClintock, Pamela (April 19, 2009). "'17 Again' tops weekend box office". Variety . Retrieved June xiii, 2014.
  10. ^ "17 Once again (2009)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 2021-01-23 .
  11. ^ "17 Again: Original Motion Flick Soundtrack". Amazon.com. Archived from the original on 20 Apr 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-22 .
  12. ^ Seon, Mi-kyung (February 25, 2020). "Kim Ha Neul, Yoon Sang Hyun, Lee Do Hyun to co-star in new drama 18 Again". Osen. V Alive. Retrieved August nine, 2020.

External links [edit]

  • 17 Once again at IMDb
  • 17 Again at AllMovie
  • 17 Again at the American Film Institute Itemize
  • 17 Again at the TCM Moving picture Database
  • 17 Once again at Box Office Mojo

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