See You Yesterday

2019
TV-MA
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

12K

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Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow in See You Yesterday (2019)

High school best friends and science prodigies C.J. and Sebastian spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. But when C.J.'s older brother Calvin dies after an encounter with police officers, the young duo decide to put their unfinished tech to use in a desperate bid to save Calvin. From director Stefon Bristol and producer Spike Lee comes See You Yesterday, a sci-fi adventure grounded in familial love, cultural divides and the universal urge to change the wrongs of the past

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Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

Director
- Stefon Bristol
Writers
- Fredrica Bailey
- Stefon Bristol
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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

12K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Stefon Bristol
Writers
- Fredrica Bailey
- Stefon Bristol
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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FrenchEddieFelson

Don't mess with the space continuum

I wonder about the intended audience: the atmosphere being very childish, adults get bored chop-chop, probably right from the start; the dialogues being hardly refined and sometimes ridiculous, the children are therefore proscribed. Moreover, the script is messy and repetitious. Finally, the ending (if you ever get there!) rhymes with bitterness. I nevertheless appreciated the reference to Retour vers le futur (1985), with the furtive presence of Michael J. Fox as a science teacher.

5BLP422

Oh come on.......

....give me a break. Endings like that should be banned. Just bloody lazy.

3samieoneill-932-429839

Michael J Fox

The best of the movie was MJF's appearance, and his Great Scott comment.. the worst? Everything else.

1darrelltill

Aimed at the wrong audience

The simple problem with this film is that it doesn't know what it is or who it's aimed at. It's as corny and mawkish as a Disney film but it's full of profanity, the result is a film that's too childish for adults yet not suitable for kids either.

7luckysgirl26

Time travel and awesome kids

This movie is fun. If you enjoy Time Travel and fresh new faces give it a try. Don't listen to the "spike lee propaganda " posts or negative comments. It was awesome and fun seeing fun intelligent black kids, who aren't big name actors and acted well. I liked it. A few holes but I take for what it is, an entertaining movie.

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See You Yesterday

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Trivia
In the school scene, Mr. Lockhart is reading "Kindred" by Octavia Butler, a book about an African-American woman who travels back in time to pre-Civil War America and has to deal with the injustice and oppression of slavery.

Goofs
When the main characters talk about light years they use it as a measurement of time while it is a measurment of distance.

Quotes
C.J. Walker: I love you, black man.
Sebastian Thomas: I love you too, black woman.

Connections
Featured in What to Watch: Time-Travel Movies You May Have Missed (2021)

Soundtracks
You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) (Extended Mix)
Written by Bo Diddley (as Ellas McDaniel), Euwart Asman Beckford, Willie Cobb (as Willie Cobbs), and Duke Reid
Performed by Dawn Penn
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp
By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing