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Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
April 9, 2002

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb


Genre
  
Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Music director
  
Writer
  
Stewart St. John

Language
  
English

Seventeen Again movie poster

Release date
  
November 12, 2000

Cast
  
(Sydney Donovan), (Young Cat Donovan), (Willie Donovan), (Grandpa Gene Donovan), (Grandma Cat Donovan), (Young Gene Donovan)

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Tagline
  
It's a Major Mix Up!

Seventeen Again is a fantasycomedy film. It first aired on Showtime on November 12, 2000, and was released on DVD on April 9, 2002. The film was also included as a bonus feature on the Sister, Sister Complete Collection box set released in March 2016. Directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd, it stars Tia & Tamera, and their brother Tahj Mowry.

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Seventeen Again movie scenes

Seventeen again 2000 trailer


Plot

When the Donovan family moves from California to Connecticut, 17-year-old Sydney (Tia Mowry) finds it is not easy being in a new town away from her old friends. However, she soon develops a crush on a classmate while trying to compete with his older sister, Ashley (Maia Campbell), who dislikes her and criticizes her anyway she can. Her 12-year-old genius brother Willie (Tahj Mowry) is happy as long as he can tinker in his lab with his increasingly complex experiments. When another experiment goes wrong, their father bans him from making more experiments in his lab until he learns responsibility in them. Willie is convinced he can defeat the aging process, and while devising an experimental anti-aging formula, he accidentally spills some on a bar of soap.

When his grandmother Cat (Hope Clarke) mistakenly uses the tainted soap, she's transformed into a 17-year-old (Tamera Mowry). Her ex-husband Gene (Robert Hooks) follows suit, and is also returned to his teenaged self (Mark Taylor).

Cat and Gene are having a fine time reliving their youth and enjoying the thrill of teenage romance, but there's a fly in the ointment. Willie learns his formula could have deadly side effects, and now he must discover an antidote to return his grandparents to their older but healthy bodies. In Sydney's room, she and Cat finally have a long and heartfelt talk. Sydney admits she's homesick for California and her old friends. She hates Connecticut and the bullying she is subjected to by Ashley and her friends because Ashley's brother is interested in her. During that time, Cat admits her earlier experience with Ashley. However unlike Sydney, she was able to stand up to her and earn Ashley's begrudging respect.

Meanwhile at the dance, Sydney finally stands up to Ashley and decks her for insulting Cat. As she and Willie leave to save their grandparents, everyone applauds Sydney giving Ashley what she deserved. Willie tosses the antidote in the pool and Gene and Cat jump in. At the end of the movie, Gene asks Cat to marry him again after their crazy experience. Cat says yes, but then the happiness is interrupted by Sydney and Willie's father announcing he is going take a shower with the soap. Of course, Sydney and Willie now have to stop their father from using the soap.

Cast

  • Tia Mowry as Sydney Donovan
  • Tamera Mowry as The Younger Version Of Grandma Catherine "Cat" Donovan
  • Mark Taylor as The Younger Version Of Grandpa Eugene "Gene" Donovan
  • Tahj Mowry as Willie Donovan
  • Hope Clarke as Grandma Catherine "Cat" Donovan
  • Robert Hooks as Grandpa Eugene "Gene" Donovan
  • Merwin Mondesir as Todd
  • Phillip Jarrett as Barry Donovan
  • Tonya Lee Williams as Monique Donovan
  • Maia Campbell as Ashley
  • Daryn Jones as Terrance
  • Novie Edwards as Julie
  • Reception

    Seventeen Again has a 6.3/10 rating on the Internet Movie Database.

    References

    Seventeen Again Wikipedia
    Seventeen Again Rotten TomatoesSeventeen Again IMDb Seventeen Again themoviedb.org