17 AGAIN
At 17 Mike O'Donnell is on top of the world: he's the star of
his high school basketball team, is a shoo-in for a college scholarship, and is
dating his soul-mate, Scarlet. But at what's supposed to be his big game where
a college scout is checking him out, Scarlet reveals that she's pregnant. Mike
decides to leave the game and asks Scarlet to marry him, which she does. During
their marriage, Mike can only whine about the life he lost because he married
her, so she throws him out. When he also loses his job, he returns to the only
place he's happy at, his old high school. While looking at his high school
photo, a janitor asks him if he wishes he could be 17 again and he says yes.
One night while driving he sees the janitor on a bridge ready to jump, and goes
after him. When he returns to his friend Ned's house, where he has been
staying, he sees that he is 17 again. He decides to take this opportunity to
get the life he lost.
In 1989, teenager Mike O'Donnell is the star of Hayden High
School's basketball team. On the day of the final game, Mike will be observed and
may win a scholarship to college. However, his girlfriend Scarlet tells him
that she is pregnant and Mike does not play the game. Twenty years later, Mike
is a complete loser who blames Scarlet for his failures. He is not promoted to
sales manager after working sixteen years at the same company; Scarlet is
divorcing him; his teen-aged son Alex and daughter Maggie hate him; and he is
temporarily living with his best friend, the eccentric and immature millionaire
Ned Gold. Mike nostalgically visits Hayden where an old janitor talks to him
about second chances in life. During the night, he sees the janitor jumping
from a bridge into the river and he unsuccessfully tries to help the man. He
then discovers that he is seventeen again. Further, he discovers that he has a
second chance to fix his relationship with his family.
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