Fourteen-year-old Henry and his friends are about to change history. Sneaking into the apartment of an eccentric Clockmaker, the kids discover that the old man controls time for the entire world through an incredible array of magnificent timepieces and weird machines. When one of the curious kids accidentally pushes a wrong button and gets launched back in time, the space-time continuum is severely disrupted. As everything begins to change around them, the young adventurers must travel back in time to save their friend...and the future
Practical Effects
Ridiculous clock contraptions that clearly don't work
Direction
Christopher Coppola's... let's call it 'enthusiastic' vision
Production
Budget so low the time travel looks like a school play
Director
Christopher Coppola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christopher Coppola is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew and Nicolas Cage's brother, making this a genuine family affair of questionable decisions.
Released straight to video in 1998, it rode the coattails of 90s kid adventure fever but missed the theatrical window by miles.
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