(Flash Review)

One could easily assume this would be a sentimental tearjerker but it thankfully wasn't. It took a different approach and could have been really good if I had been more emotionally involved with the characters but they weren't super sympathetic aside from a couple moments. The film revolves around an expecting couple in the midst of a foreseeable tragedy as the mother has a grave illness. Mother and daughter's lives pass only briefly but thankfully mother prepared...you guessed it...18 presents for each of her future birthday that she will miss. On her 18th birthday and in a fit of misguided sorrow, the daughter runs away get hits by a car and the driver is her...her mother....WTF? Que creative timeframe shift. Since she has nowhere to stay in this alternative world, she concocts a story so she can live with her parents from 18 years earlier. Her mother seems like a stick in the mud. Maybe her daughter will be able to bring some of her adventurous spirit to her mother. Watch this interesting scenario play out. The core question is will they learn who they each truly are?

I loved the writing and story of this movie. Things begin one way but take an unexpected turn. Time twists. Wounds heal. Recommend highly.

Do we take too much time to reflect or even overthink not just our existence but the way we live and what we do? What could have been and how life has treated us unfairly ... so unfairly. All that time that we could have used actually living, wasted on complaining, being bitter and just not appreciating life for what it is.

Now you could call a person that is being bitter a spoiled brat. Or you could try to understand or find out why that is. In this case the "nutcase" (bitter person) gets a reality check ... and an awakening. No pun intended, but after the inciting incident ... things are not the same. Actually the main character does a journey. Now is it fantasy, did it really happen, what could have made this happen? If it did how, if it didn't .. again how would she make this up? But these are things that are almost nonconsequential! More important is to understand the message ... and embrace it.

The actors are doing a phenomenal job. Nothing comes easy, no revelation is just there for the picking. It has to be earned. And it does - fantastical and interesting to say the least if you can bend your mind around it