Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel – 2009 | 83 mins | Sci-Fi, Comedy | Colour

Plot Synopsis

An amusing time-travel comedy wisely restricted to a single location to overcome the constraints of its low-budget – a dingy pub where three friends discover a rift in the space-time continuum in the gents. Two Pints of Lager director Gareth Carrivick and debut feature screenwriter Jamie Mathieson weave a compelling narrative from simple comedic elements and time-travel traditions, and the end result is akin to an episode of Red Dwarf padded out to feature length. The IT Crowd’s Chris O’Dowd oozes an easy, likeable everyman charisma and Shameless actor Lennox Kelly who displays a gift for subtle comic timing.

Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary thirtysomething blokes stuck in boring jobs with no prospects, who all dream for an exciting and better future. They sit down and have an average night out in the pub, a few beers, a bit of banter and joking, and putting the world to rights.

Ray (Chris O’Dowd), has been sacked from his job at the children’s adventure ‘Star Ride’, and has a renowned obsession with time travel, so when he is approached by Cassie (Anna Faris), a woman who claims to be from the future warning of time-travelling ‘Editors’ who change history, he naturally suspects a prank. His two friends dress as furry dinosaurs to sell Dino Burgers fast food. Toby (Marc Wootton), is obsessed with films, and upon hearing Ray’s story of the woman from the future, naturally assumes that Ray is pitching him a film plot. Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly), the cynic, naturally doesn’t believe any of it, until he accidentally stumbles through a temporal leak into the future of the bar after visiting the toilet. Which happens to be full of dead people, including himself!

This triggers the start of a series of accidental trips back and forth through time, during which our heroes frantically try to avoid multiple earlier versions of themselves, to avoid creating a time paradox in an attempt to unravel the mystery of just who is trying to kill them and why. The trio discover they are famous in the future and the subject of theme nights due to a small piece of paper Toby wrote. When the guys discover the letter creates a chaos theory that changes the future they attempt to destroy it, but before they can, the trio come face-to-face with deadly ‘Editor’ Millie (Meredith MacNeill).