For Denny Higgins Jr., this trip home for Christmas is not so merry. After seeking out Ellen Bristol, his former high-school sweetheart who he dumped just prior to leaving for USC, Denny learns she’s engaged to Maxwell Feldman, a future doctor and an all-around good guy. Newly sober and fighting off the urge to drink, Denny skips his family’s lavish party—much to the dismay of his watchful father, Dennison Sr.—and seeks refuge with his next-door neighbor, Marie, a fellow recovering addict and inventive neuroscientist with her own private lab…and a new trial for her latest vanguard experiment on memory recall.

 

By injecting Marie's solution, Denny may relive any memory he has from his time with Ellen. While he jumps at the chance to get a “do-over” on the biggest mistake of his life, it comes at a cost: In order to go three years into his past, Denny will enter a blackout state for the next three years of his future, and he learns quickly that chasing the past can be just as addicting any drug… and the consequences, just as great, for his future wife, Sheryl Fry, and for himself.

 

 

 

 

FROM THE DIRECTOR:

 

I have one goal for this movie, if we can accomplish it than everything we do these next few months will count as a success to me. I want people to watch "Present Day" and feel like making at least that day something worth a day of their life. This story deals with family, love, regret and addiction - all serious things that come back to this same idea. Before the start of every film shoot I direct, right before that first call to roll sound, I always ask everyone to take one breath. This is followed by a invisible calmness. I smile and remind them that we are about to make a movie. And that's pretty cool.