See You Yesterday

2019

1 hr. 26 min.

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

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93%

42 Reviews

Tomatometer

38%

250+ Ratings

Audience Score

Two teenage science prodigies spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. When one of their older brothers is killed, they put their unfinished project to the test to save him.

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Critics Consensus

See You Yesterday marries a novel sci-fi premise with urgent social relevance and forges something excitedly new from the union -- providing an impressive showcase for star Eden Duncan-Smith and debut writer-director Stefon Bristol.

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Andrei Z

Awful, everything was awful. The science was awful, the plot was awful, the characters were awful.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/11/24

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Paul P

They started with a half baked story line and never finished baking it. Some of the acting was great... some of it was 1000% overacted. Not the worst thing I've ever watched, but it started nowhere, went nowhere and finished nowhere.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/09/23

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Tony K

The only plus of the movie (although it's hard to call it a movie, rather an extended pilot of the TV show) is a cameo by Michael J. Fox

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/01/23

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Tiffany C

Worst ending of all time because there was no ending. They could've made this movie so good and they just quit.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/20/23

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Mikaella E

Great idea but plot holes everywhere!!! Bad science research, characters made poor choices, and the movie just stopped! It wasn't even a good cliff hanger, it just ended with a million questions and not in the good way!!! Really missed the mark with that very creative idea and setting and everything but just fell short.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/30/23

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Mayra

dit was de kutste film die ik ooit heb gezien. het begint bij 2 beste vrienden die samen uitvindingen doen. vervolgens maken ze een tijdreis machine. de jongen heette sabastian en het meisje heette Claudette. hij waarschuwde haar al je kan niet met tijd fucken!!!! EN WAT DOET ZIJ??!!!! ZE FUCKT MET DE TIJD WAARDOOR HAAR BROER EN BESTE VRIEND UIT EINDELIJK ALLEBEI DOOD GAAN!!!!!! en dan dacht je oh misschien leert ze ervan NEEEEEEEE MOOI NIET ze doet het gewoon weer opnieuw. en de film eindigde met haar rennend in slomo WAT EEN KUT EINDE!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Stefon Bristol

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Eden Duncan-Smith

Claudette "CJ" Walker

Dante Crichlow

Sebastian J. Thomas

Astro

Calvin Walker

Marsha Stephanie Blake

Phaedra Walker

Myra Lucretia Taylor

Gloria Thomas

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Maya Phillips

New Yorker

Though the movie encounters some of the usual pitfalls of time-travel plots (predictability, muddled rules) and sports some hokey, eighties-style special effects, what it offers in terms of diversity and messaging is a treasure.

May 29, 2019

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Soraya Nadia McDonald

Andscape

No matter the inspired cinematography or considered, authentic performances, these stories carry a weight of inevitability as they suck every particle of hope out of the air.

May 18, 2019

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

The teenagers speak with authentic voices, and Bristol builds a believable world for them (they conduct their science experiments inside Sebastian's grandmother's garage) without bogging them down in science.

Rated: B

May 17, 2019

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Lonita Cook

KCTV5 News at 9

A very different blend [of genres]... I think for the most part it's unsuccessful.

Sep 29, 2021

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

This movie has a very attractive cast of talented young actors who go a long way towards making this downbeat story more palatable. It was also a treat to see the most famous time traveler of all in the film, Michael J. Fox.

Rated: B

Jan 31, 2021

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

See You Yesterday shows people, no matter what their age, that life is not about changing the past but how we move forward.

Jul 12, 2020

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Synopsis

Two teenage science prodigies spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. When one of their older brothers is killed, they put their unfinished project to the test to save him.

Director: Stefon Bristol
Executive Producer: Matthew Myers, Jason Sokoloff
Screenwriter: Stefon Bristol, Fredrica Bailey
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 17, 2019

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