A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Three friends on losing streaks: Adam, whose girlfriend dumped him, Nick, with a dead-end job and a cheating wife, and Lou, a suicidal alcoholic. To help Lou recover from car-exhaust poisoning, Adam and Nick, with Adam's nephew Jacob, go to a winter resort that was their old party place. It's now a dump, but the lads rally for a night of drinking in the hot tub. Somehow, the hot tub takes them back to 1986, on a fateful night for each of them. Maybe if they do everything the same way they did that night, they'll get back to the future so Jacob can be born. There are serious temptations to do things differently. Will they make it back to their sorry lives? And what about Jacob?
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Jacob makes a reference to the Stephen King novel The Shining. "I'm gonna make a prediction right now. One of us is gonna start writing a novel, and then we all get snowed in, and then Lou's gonna Axe murder all of us." John Cusack previously starred in the movie 1408, which was based on a short story by Stephen King.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
(At 1:02:30) After the end of the scene where Jacob sees the repairman at the cigarette machine, the next scene opens with Nick still passed out and leaning against the side of a urinal. After Nick wakes up you can see a smudge of his makeup on the side of the urinal for the rest of that scene.
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Quotes
Lou:
Okay lay down. We got a stupid baby to make. See more »
Crazy Credits
The end credits start out as one of the main characters' alternative histories, showing real crew names over a flashy 1980s music video.
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"Bring on the Dancing Horses"
Written by Pete DeFreitas (as Peter De Freitas), Ian McCulloch (as Ian McCullough), Les Pattinson (as Leslie Pattinson) and Will Sergeant (as William Sergeant) Performed by Echo & The Bunnymen Courtesy of Warner Music U.K. Ltd. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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