17 Again You Look Just Like My Husband

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17 Over again is a 2009 American one-act film.

Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the Big Man on Campus. He's the star of the loftier school basketball team, his girlfriend is the hottest girl in school, and he's virtually to be offered a scholarship. But his life takes a turn for the worse after he discovers his girlfriend is significant.

Flash Forrard twenty years, and Mike (Matthew Perry)'s life hasn't improved. His wife Ruddy (Leslie Isle of mann) has kicked him out, his kids Alex (Sterling Knight) and Maggie (Michelle Trachtenberg) both hate him, he's but been fired, and he'southward living with his geeky merely much richer best friend Ned Golden (Thomas Lennon). Later on going to his old school to choice upwards his kids, Mike is approached by a mysterious janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) whom he tells that he'd do anything to relive the Glory Days. On his fashion dwelling house, Mike sees the same janitor about to spring off a bridge. Rushing to salvage him, he topples over the border and lands in a whirlpool.

When he crawls out and gets back to his friend'due south place, Mike discovers he's been turned into his 17-twelvemonth-onetime self. At present he has a adventure to sneak into the lives of his family and become another gamble at the life he wanted.

Non to exist confused for the year 2000 film Seventeen Once more (2000) starring Tia and Tamera Mowry and Tahj Mowry.

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This film provides examples of the following tropes:

• The '80s: Mike was 17 in 1989.
• Aesop Amnesia: The girls who are touched past the abstinence speech Mike gave to their class even so try to entice him with sexual practice after on. Though one could say that they became fifty-fifty more attracted to him considering of the speech.
• Age-Down Romance: Mike is aged down 20 years from 37 to 17. When he starts attending high school once again in the present day he's a Chick Magnet (due to being played past Zac Efron). He has to bargain with an Unwanted Harem of teenage girls including his own daughter, who are attracted to him and don't know his real age. This trope is 1-sided: he is not interested in any of these girls, instead trying to win over his wife, who now thinks he's a high school student who weirdly resembles her husband and Likes Older Women.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders:
  • Averted with Scarlet and Maggie. Neither are cheerleaders despite the fact that they engagement the captains of the basketball game squad in their corresponding decades. The actual cheerleaders appear to be Mike'due south pals and/or background dancers.
  • But so of grade at that place'due south Alex who does accept a major crush on the head cheerleader Nicole, and actually gets her.
• Almighty Janitor: With a championship similar 17 Once again, it was inevitable.
• Aw, Wait! They Really Do Love Each Other: Mike finally proving to Scarlet who he is and that everything he has done was to help his family.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Mike O'Donnell wishes that he could get dorsum in fourth dimension to change his life. Courtesy of a whirlpool, he does, by turning into his 17-twelvemonth-former cocky, which is not what he had in heed.
• Be Yourself: Ned's pursuit of the principal is ineffectual every bit long as he'due south playing upwards his Man of Wealth and Gustatory modality persona; it's only after he reveals himself to be a Lovable Nerd that they connect, equally she's a closet nerd as well.
• Bittersweet 17: A washed-upward divorcee is returned to his 17-year-old body in order to bear on change in his life when information technology was well-nigh important.
• Bookends: Mike is playing basketball, Scarlet walks into the room, he resumes playing basketball, she starts to leave, he abandons the ball and chases later her. The parallel plays out up until the dramatic twirl, when he strains his back and has to put her downwardly.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Mike is not well respected at all by his daughter Maggie, who speaks to him with impudence.
• Brainless Dazzler: Almost of the girls who chase after Mike.
• Great Magnet: Alex is bullied by Stan even at his ain abode.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Alex is incredibly bad-mannered with girls and can't hold a conversation with his crush Nicole without saying something weird, like complimenting her hair by comparing her to his dogs.
• Chick Magnet: 17-year-quondam Mike manages to attract the (unwanted) attention of multiple high school girls, including his own girl, in the present solar day. See Unwanted Harem below.
• Closet Geek: The principal, Jane Masterson, who Ned Gold spends the movie trying to win over, is a large fan of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars franchises, and corrects Ned regarding Gandalf the Grey, from the former, being Gandalf the White in Two Towers.
• Cultural Translation: In the trailer, Michael says to his friend, "You look like Clay Aiken!". In the Russian version of the trailer, his line was replaced with "Y'all wait like Elton John!". Plain, this is done considering most Russian viewers don't lookout man American Idol and have admittedly no idea who the hell Clay Aiken is, while Elton John is quite famous. Merely the trouble is that this guy does resemble Clay and in fact doesn't look like Elton.

• Digging Yourself Deeper: Happens quite often with Mike.

  Mike: [absent-mindedly] You're an excellent dancer.
  Scarlet: Excuse me?
  Mike: [backtracking] Uh... I mean... you lot look similar you can really move. [barely refrains from facepalming]

• Distracted by the Sexy: Scarlet'south get-go run-in with 17-twelvemonth-old Mike. She's so dumbstruck over how much he looks like a younger version of her husband that she ignores her friend's advice to stop acting like a fool. She eventually has to be physically stopped from going over to olfactory property him. Information technology helps that she'south also quite drunk, having just returned from a "happy hr" with her friend.
• Flexibility Equals Sex Ability: Lauren, ane of Maggie's friends, flirts with Mike by bragging she'south and then flexible she got kicked off the cheerleading team.
• Fountain of Youth: Mike falls into the river, and comes out of it in his 17-year-one-time trunk.
• Total-Name Ultimatum: "Margaret Sarah O'Donnell!"
• Geeky Turn-On: Later on trying lavish schemes to win over the heart of Principal Jane, Ned finally captures her centre when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same way.
• Genre Savvy: Ned is particularly well-versed on what kind of fiction tropes would've triggered Mike'southward transformation, as shown when he tries to effigy out:

  Ned: Are you at present, or take you lot ever been, a Norse god, vampire, or fourth dimension-traveling cyborg?
  Mike: You've known me since, what, first form? Maybe I would take told you.
  Ned: Vampire wouldn't tell... cyborg wouldn't know.

• Gilligan Cut: When Mike convinces Ned to pose as his dad and enroll him in high school. Used in both the motion picture and the trailer.
• Girl Posse: Maggie has a trio of friends who hang around her composed of Jamie, Samantha and Lauren.

• Jerk Jock: Maggie O'Donnell is going out with Stan, helm of the basketball game squad, bully, and petty douche.
• Kissing Cousins: Technically, Maggie attempts to invoke this relationship with "Mark Golden", supposedly the son of her uncle Ned. Although "Mark" and Maggie wouldn't actually exist related as Ned and Mike are only friends, not siblings. The kids merely call him Uncle Ned.
• Likes Older Women: Due to his allure to Scarlet, this is how 17-year one-time Mike's tastes would appear to everyone else.
• Manchild: Ned is an excellent example. Still holding on his geeky interests, spends all solar day playing video games, refused to leave unless Mike admittedly needs him to, eats entirely junk food, has picayune social skills, and doesn't have whatever other companion aside from Mike. The only reason he doesn't have his parents looking over him was because he is rich, which may or may non exist inherited money or being a Cocky-Made Man. Justified equally he was bullied in high schoolhouse.
• Mirror Reveal: Mike drives home after falling into a river, looks into the mirror while showering the mud off of his dress, and sees his transformed teenage self in the mirror, causing him to freak out.
• Mistaken for Gay: Maggie concludes that (17-year-old) Mike is gay afterwards he is obviously squicked past her advances.

• Nerds Speak Klingon: The wealthy merely nerdy Ned tries several lavish schemes to win over the center of the chief, but all fail. He finally captures her eye when he speaks Elvish to her... and she replies in the same way.
• Overprotective Dad: Mike stands upwardly for his daughter on multiple occasions. Hell, one of his attempts to protect his daughter ends up on YouTube.
• Papa Wolf: Don't make fun of Mike'south son, Alex while the latter is watching.
• Parental Incest: Mike's daughter falls for him briefly, admitting without knowing that he's her dad. Thankfully it goes no further than that.
• Parents as People: Both of the O'Donnell parents are shown as flawed and sympathetic. Justified by the fact Mike and Scarlet were both teenage parents, and unprepared to deal with raising kids. Mike needing to get over this is the whole point of the picture show.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mike gives i to Stan the first fourth dimension they talk, utterly annihilating him in front end of the unabridged lunchroom. Information technology begins with a Stealth Insult, followed by iii cited Freudian Excuses for Stan'south Jerk Jock personality.
• Sexy Soaked Shirt: When Mike returns dwelling and looks in the mirror, he sees his seventeen-year-old self completely soaking wet... and wearing a complete arrange.
• Shout-Out:
  • Mike claims to be the illegitimate son of his all-time friend, Ned - or, as they repeatedly refer to him, "a bastard". Estimate what touchstone of nerd civilization also centers effectually Ned's bastard?
  • When Ned and "Marking" walk into court in the trial of Mike and Cerise's divorce:
  • When Ned mistakes the newly transformed Mike for a thief.
  • When Mike wakes up after taking a punch from Stan in his girl's bed, he recounts the events and so far every bit a horrible nightmare he had, only to realize it wasn't a dream and his girl is hit on him.
  • Mike is tricked into the magical whirlpool that turns his historic period back when he sees his "spirit guide" apparently committing suicide off the bridge.
• Unmarried Adult female Seeks Good Human being: Maggie gets the hots for 17-year-old Mike, whom she doesn't realize is her father, because he comforts her when Stan breaks up with her because she didn't want to take sex.
• Stacy'due south Mom: Mark, really Mike in a 17-year-onetime body, isn't actually a teen attracted to an older adult female, but that'south what Mike claims when his son, Alex, catches him talking about her.
• Set Right What Once Went Incorrect: Subverted. Mike/Mark thinks this is what he is supposed to do, regarding making his ain life better past getting the scholarship; simply then he realizes that he could exist improving his children'due south lives instead. Eventually, he makes the aforementioned decision which he did twenty years before, and reunites with Cherry-red.

• The Talk: Mike gives an forbearance talk in wellness class. Ironically, it would have been even more effective if he was an adult, as he is a poster boy for what happens to your life because of teen pregnancy.
• That Was Non a Dream: In a Shout-Out to Dorsum to the Future, Mike deliriously tells his daughter that he dreamed he was 17 again.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Practiced Sandwich: Literally. Teen!Mike makes himself a huge sandwich, then leaves after only one bite.
• Time Marches On: Compare the 1989 cheerleaders with the afterward ones. Also, guys fighting in school would have been common plenty back in 1989, simply anybody recording the fight on their hand-held devices and uploading information technology to YouTube present is kind of a new characteristic.
• Time-Shifted Player: Mike, Ned and Crimson have unlike actors for their teenagers and adult versions, although Ned and Scarlet teen versions are only seen in the opening.
  • Teen Mike is played by Zac Efron, while his developed version is played by Matthew Perry
  • Teen Ned is played past Tyler Steelman, while his adult version is played past Thomas Lennon
  • Teen Scarlet is played by Allison Miller, while her adult version is played past Leslie Mann
• Trust Password: Subverted. Mike gives several to Ned when trying to prove his identity, and Ned gives reasons why each ane could've been faked. It takes looking at a motion-picture show of them both during their high school days to convince him.
• Unwanted Harem: Several school girls and eventually, his girl and his somewhat dislocated wife, fall for Mark, actually Mike.
• Wild Teen Party: Marker hosts a massive party at Ned'south house subsequently the basketball game.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: The present seems to take place in 2009, which would be xx years afterward Cerise's pregnancy, which would make Maggie 19 years quondam—yet she's still in high school; hence, no bodily "now" appointment is given after the Time Skip. Also, though Vanilla Ice wasn't entirely unheard of in 1989, it wasn't actually until the next year that he hit it large and would have been known well enough for Mike'south coach to call him "Vanilla Water ice" while telling him to knock off his antics with the cheerleaders.
  • A theory for this is included in the WMG page; Scarlet may have miscarried their first kid, which reinforces the reasons their marriage is still in trouble as they tried to introduce children to fix an already strained relationship.
  • Or... not. The movie was released in 2009, but Reddish specifically mentions Mike'due south been lament about their situation for 18 years, so more likely the story's "present" is actually set at onetime during the 2007-2008 school year.
• You lot're Not My Father: Maggie says to Mark that he's not her father after Marking forbids Maggie from moving in with Stan. She has no idea that he actually is her father.

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