17 Again
17 Again is a 2009 American teen fantasy comedy film directed by Burr Steers. It stars Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, and Michelle Trachtenberg, with Melora Hardin, Sterling Knight, and Matthew Perry in supporting roles. The film follows Mike O’Donnell (Perry), a 37-year-old man who becomes his 17-year-old self (Efron) after a chance accident.
Plot
In 1989, 17-year-old star athlete Mike O'Donnell finds out that his girlfriend, Scarlet Porter, is pregnant. Scarlet tells Mike about her pregnancy moments before his likely scholarship-clinching high-school championship basketball game. Mike plays the first few seconds of the game before walking off the court to go after Scarlet, abandoning his hopes of going to college and eventually a professional basketball career.
Cast
- Adam Gregory
- Allison Miller
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Collette Wolfe
- Diana-Maria Riva
- Ellis E. Williams
- Hunter Parrish
- Jesse Heiman
- Jim Gaffigan
- Josie Loren
- Kat Graham
- Leslie Mann
- Matthew Perry
- Melissa Ordway
- Melora Hardin
- Michelle Trachtenberg
- Nicole Sullivan
- Rachele Brooke Smith
- Shelby Rabara
- Sterling Knight
- Thomas Lennon
- Tiya Sircar
- Tommy Dewey
- Zac Efron
More details
| author | Jason Filardi |
|---|---|
| director | Burr Steers |
| editor | Padraic McKinley |
| events | body swap time travel |
| genre | comedy fantasy romance |
| keywords | abandon athletic scholarship basketball coach basketball game best friend bore bully drive dump fresh start game get together hear knock out new life nothing principal read scholarship star athlete true identity walk |
| musicBy | Rolfe Kent |
| producer | Adam Shankman Jennifer Gibgot |
| productionCompany | New Line Cinema Offspring Entertainment |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| recordedAt | Santa Monica |
| theme | high school romantic comedy romantic fantasy teen romance wish fulfillment |