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Michael Riley is a successful 40 year
old business man who is beginning to feel his age. He misses the athletic
abilities of his youth, and having now worries and no pressure. (Yes, some
of his memories are a little distorted). He is wishing he was seventeen
again and an angel grants him is wish. He decides to go back to his small
town high school and relive the fun of being seventeen. At first things
work out pretty well, but then he meets his old high school girl friend
and soon discovers that he is still in love with her. The problem now is,
he is seventeen and she is thirty-nine, a widow with two teenage children.
She sees Michael as a nice, mature boy. His attempts to rekindle something
with her soon gets him in trouble with her, and makes him an outcast at
school.
This was a fun movie with a thoughtful
lesson for both the young who get to caught up in working and planning
for the future, and for the older generation who are remembering the more
care free days of youth. I think this might also be Keanu Reeves' first
big staring role.
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