Young Again!

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Feature Film

Peggy Sue Got Married

Middle-aged Peggy Sue has two grown children and an adulterous husband whom she married at 18, so will she do things the same when she finds herself back in 1960 in her senior year of high school? —Michael Main
Well, Mr Snelgrove, I happen to know that in the future I will not have the slightest use for algebra, and I speak from experience.
Holding an old-fashioned key, Kathleen Turner (as Peggy Sue) looks eagerly through a giant keyhole.
  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Cartoon

Arthur (s20e01a)

Buster’s Second Chance

According to Brain, the past cannot be changed, but Buster still tries to do so when he’s thrown back to preschool by a time vortex. —Manachu
Buster: What’s the square root of 49? [Buster thinks] I don’t know. I don’t know! . . . I’m baaaaack!
An animated white rabbit wearing rectangular red glasses looks shocked to be falling into a green-and-white vortex.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Again, but Better

Shy Shane Primaveri heads to London for a semester abroad for a semester abroad program in creative writing where she hopes to become more outgoing, kiss a boy that she likes, and convince her parents after-the-fact that her decision to explore paths outside of a pre-med major was the right one. But things don’t go exactly as planned the first time through the semester. —Michael Main
Could the elevator have been, like, a time machine?
Drawing of a young woman with long reddish hair, strolling from a white area into pastal blue with the London skyline in the background.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Series

De Volta aos 15

  • Back to 15
  • Back to 15
  • written and directed by multiple people
  • 3 seasons (Netflix, 25 February 2022 to 24 February 2024)
Thirty-yeasr-old Anita feels that her life is a failure. If only she could do things over again, starting with that miserable first day of high school at age 15. In the case of the six-episode first season, Anita travels back-and-forth multiple times, with each round of new-found self-assertiveness and fresh mistakes at age 15 creating a new life at age 30. In Season 2, she gains a traveling companion in 17-year-old Joel. —Michael Main
Que vontade de pedir desculpes pra você.
translate If I could press undo in real life, I would do everything differently.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

This Time Tomorrow

After turning forty in a snit because of her career decisions, her unexciting boyfriend, and her dying father, Alice Stern wakes up on her 16th birthday in her teen body. —Michael Main
“I know it’s your birthday,” Leonard said. “You’ve made me watch Sixteen Candles enough times to ensure that I wouldn’t let this one slide.”
A light brown scribble winds its way around a lighter brown cover of Straub’s novel, This Time Tomorrow.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel