SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN - Award-Winning Time Travel Comedy (Full Short Film)

All right, everybody, here we go. 10, 9, 8, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, challenge! What? You're just not listening to me? What did you say? I said I don't have champagne glasses. I just have these cups that say Daddy Juice. I asked if you needed anything on the way over here. Yeah, and I don't need anything. I have the cups that say Daddy Juice. These are hilarious. Hey, thank you for staying in with me tonight and just keeping it simple. Oh, you don't have to thank me. That's what friends are for. I guess you're gonna have to be my midnight kiss. Kidding, obviously. I'm just kidding. Yeah, no, me too. I didn't say anything, but if I said that, it would be a joke. Yeah, no, I'm down to just keep it simple. I mean, after what you went through last year. Yeah, I'm trying not to think about that right now. Yeah, sorry. New Year's is ******* weird. It is. Everyone is bummed and thinking about what happened last year, or they're anxious, thinking about what's gonna happen next year. If you live to be, like, 80, that's two months of your life wasted just wishing things were different. Oh, my God. What year is it? Ahh! Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey! What year is it? What do you want? The entire space-time continuum is everything. Holy ******* moly! Answer me! What was the question? What year is it? It's almost 2023 on the East Coast. So it's New Year's Eve 2022? That can't be right. It was supposed to be raining. There was a blackout. That means... Oh, God. What are you... What the ****? You have to help me get back to the year 2060. The entire future depends on it. I should call the cops, right? He's a crazy person. No, this is crazy. Tonight, there was supposed to be a blackout. Your neighbor, he hit a telephone pole, but I was just out looking for parts to repair my time machine, and I saw him. He was fine. Buddy, look, I don't know how you got in my garage, but... In my time, this is my garage. Okay, I see. I think you're confused, man. This house has been in my family for... For 75 years. I know. I'm your son. Is that my father's watch? Yeah, Dad, it is. It's in my nightstand right now. And in 20 years, you and Mom will give it to me. Oh. Mom? That's, no, I'm... We're just friends. That's the problem. Tonight, during the blackout, you were supposed to have a candlelit dinner. That's when you two realized that you're more than friends. Wait, that's it. When I waved to your neighbor earlier, it must have delayed his drive by a second, causing him to never hit the telephone pole, never causing the blackout, which means you two never fall in love. Oh, God. If you two don't fall in love tonight, I disappear, and the entire timeline is thrown into chaos. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down, slow down, slow down. So you're saying that's, hold on. The two of us end up together. Yeah. That's insane. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. It's insane and stupid. That makes no sense. You're not only my parents. We're friends. We're just friends. And it's going well as just friends. Yeah. We have no desire, I think, to do anything more than that. I like being friends, and that's it. You guys are in love. You're out of your mind. Get out of here, dude. Right? Yeah. He's crazy to say that. We're running out of time. Dad, do something. You told me you always knew Mom was the one. Oh, I don't know if I would use those exact words. I'm not opposed to it. If we had to keep them alive, or for the, what, were you saying the continuum? To say the continuum. Maybe we just try one kiss, just to see if it helps or does anything. We gotta make moves here, guys. He's not just saying a kiss, though, because you're saying we would have to get together and have a kiss. Me, you have to make me. Let alone start having feelings for each other. Yeah, start having feelings. If you don't make me, then both of us would have to have the feeling. If one of us didn't have the feeling. I'm not here right now. The whole, everything would be. If you don't, **** it. He said it was supposed to rain tonight. I mean, if that came true, maybe everything else will come true. Okay, guys, what's your name? Christopher. Okay, now you're really freaking me out. Why? Because that's your father's name? That's what you've always wanted to name your kid? Either you could have looked that up. Fine, last year, your ex broke up with you right as the ball was dropping. And tonight, you're stressed because you just want this year to be different. Does that sound about right? Yeah, sort of, yeah. Okay, I mean, sort of. Oh, oh, no! Oh, my God. Oh, it's starting. Doesn't matter exactly what happened. Oh, we gotta do something now. Somebody, plug this in. Dad. Mom, if I can power my machine from your house, we can send me back to my time while blowing the circuit, thus creating a small blackout so you can still have the candle at dinner. It's risky, but it just might work. Please. Oh, ****. Okay, Dad, crank that. It'll jumpstart the quantum accelerator. Station sequence. There's a- Okay, information. Three, two, one. Zoom, one, two, three, yeah? One, two, three, five. Every time. One, yeah. We are dead, yeah. There we go. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, the time machine, it didn't work. How about the slip-space inhibitors? Hold the **** out. Yeah, get out of here, man. What, who is, this was all fake? And you did, and you bought a time machine? Who would do something like this? You got something, something's up. Something's wrong with you, buddy. You might as well get out now before I kick your ass. What did you do? Post an ad on Craigslist? Hey, help me trick my friend into dating me. I'm actually a thespian in the local community theater. Get the **** out, I said. Okay, well, we are doing a production of Pippin this spring, if that interests either of you two. It doesn't. I can explain. Yeah, explain how you wanted to ask me out, right? Yes. And then you thought the best way that I can do that is by building a time machine. I'll build a time machine, and then I'll invite Emily over, knowing full well that there's a man dressed as a time traveler ready to burst into my house, but I'm gonna act surprised, even though I wrote lines, even though I clearly rehearsed it with the weird guy, because all of this was very, very well-coordinated. And then Emily is just gonna fall in love with me over dinner like that, as if her entire understanding of the universe wasn't fundamentally changed. When you put it like that, yeah, of course it sounds crazy. I mean, you hit most of the main points. Yeah, I was gonna tell you. Emily, I swear to God. Oh! Oh, ****. Okay, is this part of it still, to get locked in here? No, this isn't actually happening. Are you serious? I'm probably gonna have to ******* call somebody. I don't have my phone. You don't? My phone's still playing, and you're listening. Oh. ****. Wow, you're on a real roll tonight, Jack. Look, I was scared. I didn't wanna ruin things between us. You're my best friend. You have no idea, do you? Sometimes, even if you have a good thing going, you can catch feelings for someone else, someone you're spending a lot of time with. Yeah, exactly. Wait, don't ask, I'm talking about me. That's what happened last year. I was the one who ended my relationship. Because I caught feelings for you. Wait, really? Why didn't you just tell me? Why didn't I just tell you? Yeah, point taken. And now, I wish I could go back and just change everything. Oh, that's so funny. That's, I swear to God, I'm not doing it. Oh, wow. Okay, just, I'm not doing it. This whole thing is over. What? Oh my God, oh no. I'm gonna ---- my pants. There's nothing to worry about. I'm gonna ---- my pants. There's nothing to worry about. I'm gonna ---- my pants. Probably just start doing it, so. There you are. ------- off, I know. I just, I realized I left with your watch. I'll just set it over here. Next to these opening night tickets to Pitman. We're trying to pack the house, you know. Really get the buzz going. We've got magic to do, just for you. We've got miracle plays to play. Yeah, I'm gonna head out. No, no, no, wait, wait. What if we just actually time travel? Oh, man. Wait, Emily, I meant like time travel. Like, can we just start the night over, please? Emily, please, just hear me out, just hear me out. It's like you said. It's like, it's not worrying about last year or what's gonna happen next year. It's just, it's living somewhere in between, you know? Like, like right now, in this moment, I am feeling really sorry and really embarrassed and very much like I love you. I'm in love with you, and I'm sorry. So sorry. The sausages. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. I'm gonna try this again. Take two. Emily, I have feelings for you, obviously, and I would like to date you. The end. That's it. How was that? See? All I asked for was simple. I guess you are gonna be my midnight kiss. What? Oh, yeah, okay. Sorry, I know it's been a long night, but might as well do these last. Bye. ♪ I like that I'm supposed to, so what am I supposed to do? ♪ ♪ Yeah, what am I supposed to do? ♪ ♪ What am I supposed to do? ♪