After a failed senatorial campaign, struggling politician Jack and his wife Maggie return to Jack's old, rural stomping ground for some much needed downtime. It's a place full of memories and people Jack grew up with, including it turns out, "the one who got away"--very, very far away.
When Jack runs into his high school sweetheart over a can of asparagus in a grocery aisle, sparks fly, but perhaps not in the way expected. Thanks to a cryo-slept trip to the stars and back, time-dilated Elise (Brianna Hildebrand of Lucifer Season 6) is still physically and mentally an 18-year-old, while earthbound Jack is knocking on 40's door. Elise is trying to find her place in a world that's changed without her. Jack is trying to get back to the person he once was. Can they ever hope to be together with a 22+ year age gap and Jack's marriage getting in their way?
On the surface, it may seem like Elise's perspective would be the most interesting one to examine, but writers Erwann Marshall and Chad Fifer understand it's the male perspective we need most here. There are simply far too few stories exploring the Herculean struggle married, 40-year-old men face when lured in by the siren's call of the barely-legal 18-year-old girls who love them.
Perhaps nothing better encompasses Jack's struggle than when, after a night of partying and more with 18-year-old Elise, he must return home to his toxic 30-something wife and suffer having sex with her, even though she's not ovulating at all.
If ever there were a film that could accurately represent the zeitgeist of 2020s America, it might be The Time Capsule. It's a movie that will leave you breathless with its implications, right to its beautifully bittersweet end.
When Jack runs into his high school sweetheart over a can of asparagus in a grocery aisle, sparks fly, but perhaps not in the way expected. Thanks to a cryo-slept trip to the stars and back, time-dilated Elise (Brianna Hildebrand of Lucifer Season 6) is still physically and mentally an 18-year-old, while earthbound Jack is knocking on 40's door. Elise is trying to find her place in a world that's changed without her. Jack is trying to get back to the person he once was. Can they ever hope to be together with a 22+ year age gap and Jack's marriage getting in their way?
On the surface, it may seem like Elise's perspective would be the most interesting one to examine, but writers Erwann Marshall and Chad Fifer understand it's the male perspective we need most here. There are simply far too few stories exploring the Herculean struggle married, 40-year-old men face when lured in by the siren's call of the barely-legal 18-year-old girls who love them.
Perhaps nothing better encompasses Jack's struggle than when, after a night of partying and more with 18-year-old Elise, he must return home to his toxic 30-something wife and suffer having sex with her, even though she's not ovulating at all.
If ever there were a film that could accurately represent the zeitgeist of 2020s America, it might be The Time Capsule. It's a movie that will leave you breathless with its implications, right to its beautifully bittersweet end.