Precedes the feature film REUNION
Armed with weed and a dangerously confident theory that love can bend time, two best friends crash five years into the past with absolutely no plan and even worse instincts. Swann has just gotten out of prison, certain his conviction was a setup. Randall, his loyal but misguided sidekick, believes the old movie Somewhere in Time is less “lovey-dovey fantasy” and more step-by-step instruction manual. Swann calls bullshit; the universe says, “Hold my beer.” The guys wake up at a New Year’s Eve party in 2021 and try to play it cool, pretending their investigation is hypothetical while hunting for the real bad guy who ruined Swann’s life. Swann recruits Liv, a sharp, enthusiastic podcast junkie thrilled to solve a mystery with two scruffy “detectives.” Meanwhile Randall treats time travel like a road trip with no speed limit, ricocheting through history and hoping weed gummies and good vibes count as life skills. Fast, silly, and a little heartfelt, It’s Hard Not to Be Romantic About Time Travel is a genre-blending ride that plays like Pineapple Express meets a true-crime vacation, where loyalty, bad ideas, and excellent pre-rolls become the only tools these accidental heroes have to prove that the dumbest idea in the room might also be the best one.