| Movie DescriptionIn 2010 Los Angeles, three friends have had a string of bad luck with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by yet another girlfriend, and his video-game-obsessed nephew Jacob (Clark Duke) lives in his basement, Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy past his prime; and Nick (Craig Robinson) has a dead-end job and an unfaithful wife named Courtney (Kellee Stewart) who controls his every move.
Lou almost dies through carbon monoxide poisoning in what his friends think is a suicide attempt. He later wakes up in the hospital with his friends and denies having tried killing himself. Adam and Nick impulsively take him and Jacob to the site of some of their most memorable weekends, the Kodiak Valley Ski Resort which, like them, has fallen upon hard times. After a crazy night of drinking in a hot tub, the guys wake up in 1986. The group can see each other as their proper age, but when they look at their reflections and to everyone else they appear as they did in 1986; however, Jacob, who has not even been born yet, is still in his normal 2010 state.
They arrive during "Winterfest '86," the weekend when Poison played to a huge crowd at the then-thriving Kodiak Resort. At first, the guys are not convinced that they have traveled back in time. Nick becomes convinced when he finds out from another guest at the lodge that Michael Jackson has not yet gone through the processes of his skin becoming lighter and is, therefore, still "black". He thens runs out of the lobby screaming. It is also a time that was particularly hard on the group: Adam broke up with his first girlfriend; Adam's sister, Kelly, conceived Jacob with an unknown father; Lou was beaten up by Blaine, the ski patrol bully; and Nick played a less than mediocre performance with his band at an open mic contest. |
