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Title: Project Almanac (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jonny Weston | ... | David Raskin | |
| Sofia Black-D'Elia | ... | Jessie Pierce | |
| Sam Lerner | ... | Quinn Goldberg | |
| Allen Evangelista | ... | Adam Le | |
| Virginia Gardner | ... | Christina Raskin | |
| Amy Landecker | ... | Kathy Raskin | |
| Gary Weeks | ... | Ben Raskin | |
| Macsen Lintz | ... | David, Age 7 | |
| Gary Grubbs | ... | Dr. Lou | |
| Michelle DeFraites | ... | Sarah Nathan | |
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Curry Stone | ... | Male Student |
| Jamila Thompson | ... | Marina | |
| Katie Garfield | ... | Liv | |
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Hillary Harley | ... | Blonde |
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Courtney Bowers | ... | Jess' Friend |
As a group of friends discover plans for a time machine, they build it and use it to fix their problems and for personal gain. But as their future falls apart with disasters, and they come to realize the irreversible ripple effects caused by their time travels, they must decide to fix this once and for all.
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This film seems to have really divided people on here but on the whole I really liked it.
Teenager David Raskin (A very good Jonny Weston, an actor clearly with a good career ahead of him) is a bit of a brain box at school. His best friend is an even bigger nerd than he is and not as brainy and of course he fancies one of the it girls, while his sister is being bullied by some others. Weston is a very good looking actor, so trying to pass him off as a science geek is really a bit of a stretch one of the films weakest flaws but one I was prepared to forgive. This group form an unlikely alliance when they discover via one of David's deceased Dad's experiments, they have invented time travel. They jump together and change various things in their recent past and also do some fairly typical teenage things like go and win the lottery. Someone on here was moaning saying people wouldn't do that, they would go back and see people they loved and so on - well I am fairly certain as a teenager I would do both.
Our lead character though cannot leave well enough alone and jumps once too often and the ripple effect begins to cause them problems.
Project Almanac is a found footage film and these normally alone will cause me not to watch them but I found the premise of this one intriguing enough to seek it out. It's helped by a reasonably good script which plays out like a good episode of the Twilight Zone but what really helps the film is the cast. Its pretty rare that a group of teenage actors should all be universally so good, but that is certainly the case here. Sofia Black-D'Elia who more recently starred in Born of War is especially good and one I predict big things for while Sam Lerner who plays the thankless role of the Annoying friend clearly has taken on board everything his actor father taught him. This really is a talented group of individuals.
The film reminded me of the 1980s cult film The Explorers and I found myself rooting for the hero towards the end because you wanted him to set everything right. I really enjoyed this film and stayed up really late when I was super tired to watch it. Thankfully I wasn't bored and I was with them until the end. Recommended, from me at least anyway.