When Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) turns 21, his father (Bill Nighy) tells him that the men of their family have a special talent: they can travel to any point in their own timeline and relive a moment or make changes. Tim is skeptical but after trying it out, he finds that it's true. Things are going along, his life seems charmed, and he meets Mary (Rachel McAdams), an American working for a publishing company. He gets her number and everything looks like roses, until he has to rewind the evening to keep his flatmate's (Tom Hollander) newest play from going down in flames. He realizes that he erased the timeline with Mary's number and must contrive a series of events to meet her for the first time again.
Like I said, it's cute. Gleeson and McAdams are performing at around 10% of their potential here and it works. There's no melodrama or needless conflict and the time travel is kept more as a metaphor for the ephemeral quality of life than as a major plot device. It's a nice movie to put on if you don't feel well and want something light. It was streaming on Netflix but I think it actually came off on the 15th of this month. I'm sure it'll be back, though.
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