17 Again

     17 Again is a movie about a father who has two teenage kids who don't really like him too much. The father is being be divorced by his wife. The father goes back to his high school where his kids attend to now. He runs into this "janitor" and talks about his past years. The father, Mike, and his wife, Scarlet, dated in their high school years. As seniors, they made a mistake and ended up with a child in the half of the year. They graduated but their life didn't go as they had planned. Mike wanted to get a basketball scholarship but he gave it up for Scarlet. They had their first child which was a girl, Maggie. Soon came along Alex. Mike wasn't getting higher up in his job and ended up getting fired by his own cousin. The janitor asks him if he would like to go back and do it all over again. Mike says that he would like to but doesn't expect it happening. One night Mike goes for a drive through the rain and goes over a bridge. While looking out the window he sees the janitor on top of the ledge of the bridge. Mike stops the car and gets out while yelling at the janitor to get down. The janitor supposedly jumps off the bridge and Mike runs to where he was. He stands there looking into the water and sees a whirlpool starting to form. Mike falls into it and wakes up walking home, his friend from high school's home. He gets there and looks in the mirror and notices that he looks like he did when he was 17. Mike's friend, Ned, wakes up and walks out thinking there is someone in the house other than Mike. They end up fighting but Ned finally realizes that it's actually Mike. They talk about what has happened and can't seem to figure out how he got to look like a 17 year old again. Mike decides that he should go back to high school and play basketball again. He goes back, makes friends with his son who eventually finds out that he's actually his father, and Mike and his son both make the basketball team. Mike comes by to the house to see Scarlet but pretends to see Alex. While going back to high school, he sees how his children actually are. Maggie dates a jerk basketball player. Alex gets picked on by the basketball team. Mike goes in, helps Alex out, and makes Maggie realize how stupid it is to date the jerk of a basketball player. Scarlet is still planning to go through with this divorce although Mike has been a little busy with his back to high school life. Being sentenced to court for the divorce, Mike goes in and spills his heart out to Scarlet speaking for his former adult self. After a few basketball games, the same scout that showed up to see Mike 17 years ago comes back to scout him out once again. Scarlet was there and once Mike did a hand gesture that proved he was the real Mike, she got up and left just like she did in the past. Mike drops the ball and runs after. While he runs back after her, he turns back to his adult self. Showing that history repeated itself, Scarlet and Mike quit the divorce and live their lives happy again. Guess he made the right decision after all.

The Notebook

The Notebook is a romantic movie. This movie shows how two people fell in love. Years ago from now, two people met each other at a fair. The girl's name was Allie, and the boy's name was Noah. He begged her to go on a date with him. She finally says yes. It took a little bit for them to actually connect, and Allie finally realized the good in Noah. The inseparable couple spent their whole summer together. One night they wandered off to an abandoned house. They showed each other how much they trusted and loved one another. They were soon interrupted by Noah's friend, Fin. Fin tells them Allie's parents are going crazy wondering where she is. Police were involved, and she gets home as soon as she can. Being that it's really late in the night, Allie's parents yell at her. They tell Allie that she shouldn't be seeing Noah. She runs out of the room to find Noah in his car about to leave. Noah told Allie that it was over. They broke up especially because she was going to college out of state. Noah promised to himself that he would write to Allie each day for one year. He kept his promise hoping that Allie would write back. She didn't. After the 365th day, he quit writing. He worked with his friend Fin and fixed up the abandoned house that him and Allie were in that one night. That night they were together, Allie told Noah exactly how she would've wanted the house to look. Remembering what she said, he made the house look exactly as she wanted. Allie, being in college, ended up going into the medical field. She helped this one guy, Lon, who told her he wanted to take her out on a date. After Lon recovered, he stood against his car and watched Allie and her friend walk by. He stopped her and told her, "How about that date?" They spent a lot of time together which resulted to him proposing to her. Allie's parents liked Lon mostly because he had a good future and he was rich. Allie went to try on her wedding dress one day. She looked at the newspaper and fainted when seeing a picture of Noah in front of the abandoned house which he made to look exactly as she wanted. She realized she needed to see Noah. Allie told Lon she'd be going out of town for a little bit. She drove all the way to the house to see Noah. They talked and argued, as usual. One afternoon they go on a canoe and its starts to pour down rain. They row back to the dock and she asks, "Why didn't you write?" Noah tells her, "I did write. I wrote each day for a year." They kiss and find their way back home. They were and always would be crazy about each other. Allie's mom stops by while Allie is sitting at the house alone. Her mother takes her to a place where the guy Allie's mom used to be crazy about worked. Allie's mother's story was quite similar to Allie's now. Allie's mother admits to keeping all the letters Noah wrote her. Noah and Allie couldn't leave each other. They couldn't let go of what all they had. Way in the future, Allie ends up having Alzheimer's. Noah told the story of their life back then to her every day, as she wished. She would remember who he was at times. Noah snuck into Allie's room where she was sleeping and he lies with her. For that last moment they had together, she remembered. The nurse comes in to find both of them passed away together. 

Hopefully, love like this can happen to everyone.