Hot Tub Time Machine

"Kick some past."

Mar 26 2010 R 1h 41m
Comedy, Sci-Fi

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.

Plot

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?

Written by

Josh Heald, Sean Anders, John Morris

Directed by

Steve Pink

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, New Crime Productions, United Artists

Languages

English

Awards

5 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
197,355
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
63
Popularity
NA