The first 20 minutes runs through the whole romance - two cute and eligible young things meet, and she makes him go to a Japanese Breakfast concert but he sticks with her anyway. They fall in love, and decide to spend their lives together. And then something horrible happens, and we're finally into the meat of the movie. Laura (the young woman, played by Clara Rugaard) spends the rest of the movie with a weird Walkman and a mixed tape that lets her bounce back into the relationship for very short segments of time, where she tries to make it go better.

The primary conceit of the movie is, umm, not great. The romance is cute but kind of insipid: it's all based on the first 20 minutes, they love each other, blah blah blah. Their characters, their relationship simply aren't developed enough to inspire the audience. Which means what we're left with is her desperate race to fix things based on an idiotic tape-machine-through time idea, with the added benefit (not really) of her bouncing back to the present to find her actions in the past have changed things. So we have a generic romance with a not particularly deep time travel story nailed on, with a weak and mildly annoying ending.

As soon as I saw the name of the actor playing the other half of the central romance, "Lewis Pullman," I thought "damn, that's got to be Bill Pullman's son!" I was all impressed with myself when I found I was right, until I looked at his resume and realized I've seen him in both "Bad Times at the El Royale" and "Catch-22" - in which he played Major Major Major Major - and didn't spot the association before. Oh well. In this one he certainly seemed to be channelling his father. Looks like him, seems to have even brought along some of his mannerisms and speech patterns from when Dad was doing rom-coms.