Plot: Aspiring to follow in his late inventor father's footsteps, the brilliant seventeen-year-old high-school senior, David Raskin, finds himself with his back to the wall, unable to afford MIT's tuition fees. However, things will take an unexpected turn when David stumbles upon his genius dad's blueprints of an untested time machine, and after persistent experimentation, decides to use it for personal gain. Before long, the first pivotal mistake takes place, causing irreversible ripple effects by the time travels of David and his friends, doing more harm than good. More and more, the already precarious future of the young adventurers falls apart, as each trip they take only results in more disaster. Can the ambitious Project Almanac fix the team's future to save their past?
Alternative Plot: David Raskin (Jonny Weston) is a high-school science nerd who dreams of going to MIT. When he and his friends (Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista) find his late father's plans for a "temporal displacement device," David can't wait to start tinkering. When they finally get the device to work, the teenagers jump at the opportunity to manipulate time in their favor -- but their joy is short-lived when they begin to discover the consequences of their actions.
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