![]() Now with a new outlook on life, Teddy calls his boss to inform her he will be cutting down his hours at work and studying photography, encourages Sam to get screened for skin cancer, and resolves to give the tin can to Becca so she can save her own marriage. Teddy and Leanne finally reunite, and Teddy wakes up the day after the wedding. Upon opening it, Leanne miraculously finds Teddy's father's ring. On their tenth anniversary, Teddy rushes to Leanne's house and asks her to find the old tin can. She often visits her lover's grave to show her how she's using the years she never got to give other people the same gift. She explains that she was given a similar gift shortly before her own wedding her experience made her realize that she didn't love her fiancé, and was in fact a lesbian. He visits Sam's grave, where he again encounters the strange woman who gave him the "gift" of fast-forwarding through his life. Teddy tries to call Sam but is heartbroken when he realizes that he has died. His daughter, Tallulah, whom he doesn't remember seeing since infancy and is now seven, tries to cheer him up.Īnother year passes. He finds a chocolate bar containing peanuts in the sand and considers suicide. Teddy takes the dog on a walk to the beach, where another year passes. She shamefully admits that she lost it at the beach, and couldn't find it even after hours of searching. Leanne and Patrick help him out and Teddy is shocked to see Leanne is no longer wearing his ring. He suggests they get a kiddie pool, which, as time shifts again, he falls into. Teddy visits Leanne and is surprised to learn that she is the owner of a Great Dane puppy (a dog Teddy disliked) and is dating a man named Patrick. Teddy wonders what keeps bringing them together when they're clearly wrong for each other, and Becca sadly notes that she would have been able to save her marriage if she had the knowledge then that she has now. Becca vows to stop seeing Teddy, but they are still together a year later. They almost have sex, but Leanne walks out upon finding Becca's bra on the couch. ![]() Teddy rushes Becka onto the terrace when Leanne drops by wanting to get back together. On their fifth anniversary, Teddy wakes up from a night with his ex Becca, whose marriage has also fallen apart and who Teddy has been seeing casually for a few months. Worse, Sam has been diagnosed with skin cancer, and Teddy is shocked by his weight and hair loss. On Teddy and Leanne's fourth anniversary, Teddy is shocked to find Leanne gone they have agreed to a trial separation. Teddy promises he can change, but the letter he wrote betrays the resentment he feels at being forced to be the family breadwinner instead of pursuing his dream of photography, while Leanne chases a "pipe dream" of being a writer. Leanne feels that Teddy isn't the man she married, as he spends all his time at work. In the intervening year, Teddy and Leanne have begun couples' counseling and their therapist has asked them to write letters to each other. They theorize that Teddy's predicament is similar to that in the film Groundhog Day, and that Teddy must have a "perfect day" to break the curse. Teddy realizes that time is passing normally for everyone but him, and asks his best friend Sam to meet him in one year with an anniversary present, which he does. A few minutes later, time shifts to their second anniversary and he is the father of a baby girl who, much to his shock, is named Talullah. The morning after the wedding, Teddy wakes up to discover that exactly one year has passed and Leanne is 18 weeks pregnant. A strange woman overhears them and cautions Teddy against wasting his life and gives him a wedding gift of a tin can, with the instruction not to open it until his tenth anniversary, for which the traditional gift is tin. A few years later, Teddy and Leanne visit Teddy's father's grave to give him the news that Teddy has proposed using the ring he personally crafted for Teddy's mother, though they haven't set a date. Leanne helps Teddy when he goes into anaphylactic shock from inadvertently consuming a peanut that was in Leanne's mouth, and the two begin a relationship. By mistake, he kisses another woman named Leanne who is wearing the same dress. It is loosely based on the Indian film Baar Baar Dekho (2016).Īt a New Years' Eve party, Teddy races to kiss his girlfriend Becca by midnight. Produced by StudioCanal, Screen Australia, Create NSW and Spectrum Films, it was released on 11 February 2021 in Australia by StudioCanal and in the United States on 2 July 2021 by Saban Films. Long Story Short is a 2021 Australian romantic comedy film written and directed by Josh Lawson about a man who wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he is jumping forward in time.
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