STORY SUMMARY

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It’s 1990s California. Rachel’s big weakness is music. Pregnant after a fateful one-night stand with a grunge metal guitarist with a troubled past named Frock, Rachel decides the best thing to do is to give up their new baby daughter for adoption. Deeply regretting her decision, when Rachel encounters a mysterious time vortex in a raucous live music venue called The Electric Banana, she takes a big chance on a trip to the future with only a few days to find her daughter.

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Rachel enters the future in what is now no longer The Electric Banana but a subdued wired venue called Shadows, and meets the suicidal Ann, who just quit her stressful career as a young attorney. In a dramatic and deeply emotional turn, Rachel reveals to Ann that she is, in fact, her daughter. 

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Ann travels back in time with Rachel and is changed forever. Ann goes on a partying spree, experiencing the highs and lows of the '90s, until things get too wild one night at Lollapalooza where she goes to see her birth father Frock for the first time, appearing with his now-trending band Shift. Frock and Ann’s connection also reignites Frock and Rachel when Frock comes back home to continue his daughter's guitar lessons, an unconventional family reunited. Ann triumphantly plays with Frock in a concert at The Electric Banana.

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Finally finding her life’s passion and happiness that she never felt before, Ann is reminded of her adoptive parents back in the future, whom she misses and truly loves. Her decision becomes more urgent when she has reason to suspect she may have lost them forever. Ann wants to time travel again, but this time there’s a problem. Ann has stayed too long in the past to go back forward. But her '90s family comes together for a spectacular musical spectral time shift from the rickety roof of The Electric Banana. ​

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REVIEW SUMMARY

"I really appreciated how naturalistic and pained their frayed connection ends up being. There is a melancholy and specificity that really sets this story apart from other time travel comedies/dramedies. It’s a time-travel with loads of heart. It has a 1990s nostalgic bent that feels like it has yet to be fully exhausted by most nostalgia movies. This script feels like a can't-miss." GRADE: “Recommend” (Roadmap Writers coverage)