Project Almanac
Project Almanac (formerly titled Cinema One, Almanac, and
Welcome to Yesterday) is a 2015 American found footage science fiction thriller
film directed by Dean Israelite and written by Jason Harry Pagan and Andrew
Deutschman. Filmed in 2013 and originally planned for an early 2014 release,
the release date was later moved to January 30, 2015.
Directed by Dean
Israelite
Produced by Andrew
Form,Bradley Fuller,Michael Bay
Written by Jason
Harry Pagan,Andrew Deutschman
Starring Jonny
Weston,Sofia Black D'Elia,Sam Lerner,Allen Evangelista,Virginia Gardner,Amy
Landecker
Cinematography Matthew J. Lloyd
Edited by Julian
Clarke,Martin Bernfeld
Production
company Insurge
Pictures,MTV Films,Platinum Dunes
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates January 30,
2015
Running time 106 minutes
Country United
States
Language English
Budget $12
million
Box office $33.2
million
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Story of
In 2014, 17-year-old high school senior and aspiring
inventor David Raskin (Jonny Weston) is admitted into MIT, but is unable to
afford its tuition fees. Upon learning his mother, Kathy Raskin (Amy
Landecker), is planning to sell the house, David enlists his sister Christina
(Virginia Gardner) and his friends Adam Le (Allen Evangelista) and Quinn Goldberg
(Sam Lerner) to go through the belongings of his father, Ben Raskin (Gary
Weeks), an inventor who died in a car crash on David's 7th birthday, in the
hope of finding something that David can use to get a scholarship. David ends
up finding an old camera with a video recording of his birthday, in which he
briefly spots his 17-year-old self in a reflection. The four later find the
blueprints of a temporal relocation device that Ben was developing for the
United States military named "Project Almanac," and use the available
resources to build a functional time machine, including hydrogen canisters
stolen from their school. David, Christina, Adam, and Quinn later use the
battery from the car of David's longtime crush, Jessie Pierce (Sofia Black
D'Elia), who is attending a party in the neighborhood, to charge up the
machine, and successfully send a toy car back in time, blowing out the power
for the entire neighborhood. They end up being caught by Jessie and recruit her
to their experiment.
David, Jessie, Christina, Adam, and Quinn eventually
travel back in time to the day before and break into Quinn's house, where they
draw a smiley face on the back of the neck of a sleeping past Quinn (which
simultaneously appears on the back of the visiting Quinn's neck). However, he
awakens and seeing his future self causes a feedback loop that nearly erases
them both from the timeline. The five agree to use the machine for personal
gain on the condition that they always use it together. Adam uses it to win the
lottery, Christina gets back at her bullies, Quinn aces a chemistry test to
secure his academic future, and the group eventually decides to travel back to
Lollapalooza three months before. David hesitates to declare his feelings for
Jessie and their relationship becomes awkward. David is disappointed by this
and decides to travel back in time alone to change that, leading to a future in
which they are a couple. When he returns, he finds that the blackout caused by
them sending the toy car back resulted in their school's star basketball player
getting hit by a car and breaking his leg; the team doesn't make it to the
championships, and those that would have attended go elsewhere, including a
pilot who ends up crashing a commercial airliner along with multiple other
catastrophes around the world. David goes back alone once again and prevents
the accident that would lead to the player's injury, and averts the plane
crash. He returns to the future to learn that instead Adam is in critical
condition in the hospital after being run over.
David continues to travel back in time to rectify the
poor outcomes, but eventually is caught by Jessie during one of his trips back
in time. Jessie confronts David, who is forced to admit to using the time
machine to win her affection. As Jessie lambasts David for his deception, her
past self runs up and Jessie is erased from the timeline after seeing her past
self. David decides to go back to prevent the machine from being created, but
the machine is out of hydrogen. As David leaves to go to the school to retrieve
more hydrogen, he is confronted by the police, who suspect him of being
connected to Jessie's disappearance. David escapes to his school and obtains a
hydrogen canister to return to 2004. He manages to activate the machine just as
the police break into the supply room, and sends himself back to the day of his
7th birthday.
In the basement, David confronts his father Ben, who
recognizes him and deduces that he'll eventually complete the machine. David
convinces Ben of the machine's danger and tells him that he should say goodbye
to his son. Meanwhile, David destroys the blueprints and a vital component, the
heart of the machine, causing him to be erased from the timeline. However, his
camera is left behind and records the whole thing. Back in the future, David
and Christina are once again going through their father's belongings, when they
find their father's camera as well as the alternate David's camera with footage
of them from minutes before. Later, at school, David approaches Jessie for the
first time once again, displaying knowledge of the future, and confides in her
that they're about to "change the world."
Cast by
Jonny Weston as David Raskin
Sofia Black
D'Elia as Jessie Pierce
Sam Lerner as Quinn Goldberg
Allen
Evangelista as Adam Le
Virginia
Gardner as Christina
Raskin
Amy Landecker as Kathy Raskin
Gary Weeks as Ben Raskin
Michelle
DeFraites as Sarah Nathan
Patrick
Johnson as Todd
Gary Grubbs as Dr. Lu
Katie Garfield as Liv
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