Hot Tub Time Machine
Forget the present. Change the future. Kick some past.
Directed by Steve Pink
Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Crime Productions
A high-energy, irreverent comedy that uses time travel and 1980s nostalgia as a vehicle for four middle-aged friends to escape their ruts and reconnect.
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.
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