17 Again (film)

17 Again is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Burr Steers. The film follows 37yearold Mike Matthew Perry who becomes a 17yearold high school student Zac Efron after a chance accident. The film also features Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon and Michelle Trachtenberg in supporting roles. The film was released in the United States on April 17, 2009.

In 2009, Mike Matthew Perry, now thirtyseven years old, finds his life stalled. Scarlet Leslie Mann, now his wife and mother of their two children, has separated from him due to his blaming her for his regrets about abandoning his future, forcing him to move in with his geeky, yet extremely wealthy, best friend since high school, Ned Gold Thomas Lennon. At his job, we see another reason for his frustration due to his lack of higher education and since he is significantly older than most of his coworkers, he is passed over for a promotion he deserves in favor of a much younger worker. He quits his job and his high schoolage children, Maggie Michelle Trachtenberg and Alex Sterling Knight want nothing to do with him. Later, while visiting his high school to reminisce, an encounter with a mysterious janitor Brian DoyleMurray transforms Mike back into his seventeenyearold self.Mike then enrolls in high school posing as Mark Gold, Neds son, and plans to go to college with a basketball scholarship. As he befriends his bullied son and discovers that his daughter has a boyfriend, Stan, who does not respect her and frequently torments Alex, Mike comes to believe that his mission is to help them. He meets Stan Hunter Parrish, the captain of the basketball team, and embarrasses him in front of the whole school after Stan insults Alex. Later, in Sex Education class while the teacher is handing out condoms to the students in a basket, Stan turns to Mike and refuses to give him any, saying that he does not need them, causing quiet laughter among the class. Mike then makes a speech about love and sex in front of the whole class for Maggies benefit, causing all of the girls to give back their condoms. Stan then takes the condoms claiming that he is stocked up for the weekend and kisses Maggie passionately. Because of this, Mike loses his temper and starts a fight with Stan on the floor, which is being taped by other students and eventually goes viral within a matter of minutes. Mik

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