YOU & ME AND YOU & ME AND YOU & ME

A long-married couple stumble on a time machine and relive crucial scenes from their lives.

Adam and Jules have been together for 25 years and have begun to take each other for granted. Their lives are stale, and their grown children are sullen and living at home. Adam is plugging away at a job he can’t stand, while Jules is struggling to make her catering business work and secretly drowning in credit card debt. When Jules tries to throw out a box of old mixtapes, Adam can’t bear to see them go—to him, the tapes signify how much they’ve always meant to each other, even if they haven’t shared one (or properly connected) in years. He pops one into his ancient stereo and is, surprisingly, yanked back in time to the moment he gave Jules the tape. Soon he and Jules are both traveling in time and re-experiencing moments from their pasts. They promise not to alter anything, but neither of them can help making what, at first, are tiny changes—Adam convinces his past self to start a workout routine, while Jules tells past Adam not to grow a beard. Soon, though, they’re making bigger changes to give themselves the lives they deserve, and those changes create massive, unanticipated shifts in their current reality. Is it possible they’ve created a life where they don’t even end up together? Co-writers Lloyd and Rees create a touching portrait of a marriage in crisis as Adam and Jules relive their best and worst moments and watch their children grow up in the blink of an eye. They’re forced to reexamine their biggest regrets and decide if living through horrible things actually helped them become the people they are. Ultimately, the story is a reminder to live in the present and appreciate the tiny moments that make up a life—as one character tells Jules, “Happiness is learning to love what you already have.”

A lovely, emotional look at the importance of everyday joys and appreciating what’s in front of you.