Hot Tub Time Machine

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Directed By: Steve Pink
Starring: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson
Year: 2010
MPAA Rating: R
Theatrical Release: 3.26.2010
DVD Release: 6.29.2010
Plot Summary: Following a night of drinking in a ski-resort hot tub, four pals wake up back in 1986, getting a chance to rewrite the past.

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It's About Time Travel: Daylight Savings ClusterFlick Challenge

Today's Challenge: With Daylight Savings starting today, lots of people are going to “travel through time” and skip over one hour. Can you find a link between the time travel movies Hot Tub Time Machine and Back to the Future?
Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.
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Posted 03.13.11 by reelz
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Hot Tub Time Machine Reviews

This movie looks polarizing based on its title alone, and that's exactly what's happening with early critic reviews.
"This is a step or two below The Hangover, but occupying similar turf."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...offers a merrily idiotic movie to go with its willfully idiotic title."
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
"...an agreeably raunchy, rude, retro Spring Break 2010 comedy..."
— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"...a loud, disjointed and not terribly funny comedy, which probably is what one expects with a title like that. The unfortunate thing is, it didn't need to be."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
"The most attention-getting, stupid/brilliant high-concept title since Snakes on a Plane turns out to be the first and last memorable thing about Hot Tub Time Machine."
— Dennis Harvey, Variety

Posted 03.25.10 by reelz
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1986's Stars: Who Could Use a Dip (or More) in the Hot Tub Time Machine?

Hot Tub Time Machine opens this Friday. The high concept for this dude comedy? As you might suspect from the movie's title, a time traveling hot tub that sends John Cusack, Clark Duke, Craig Robinson, and Rob Corddry back to the year 1986.
The now 43-year-old Cusack has aged quite well, looking not much different than he did in 1986's Stand By Me. Which got us thinking: How have the other stars of 1986's most popular and enduring flicks (TopGun, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, About Last Night...) held up? Who just needs to dip a toe in the water? And who would benefit from a long, deep soak?

Posted 03.23.10 by reelz
Second Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer

A new trailer has emerged online for Hot Tub Time Machine, starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke. If ever a title told the story of a movie it's this one, but here's the official synopsis anyway.
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE follows a group of best friends who've become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can't find the party; Nick's (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won't leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures — one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists!
The movie is directed by Steve Pink, Cusack's screenwriting partner on Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity. Check out the trailer below.

Posted 02.12.10 by Ryan