Tom Summerhays (Ryan Gosling) has everything he’s ever wanted in this world: the beautiful wife (Natalie Portman), great kids, a big house, fantastic job…But something’s missing.
One night after work, Tom swings thru his local Quik-E-Mart to pick up some snacks and drinks for movie night at home when he passes by the beer cooler. He peruses all of the different options: Budweiser, Miller Lite, PBR, fancier stuff like Anchor Steam and Heineken. But as his gaze moves across all of these beer options he is stopped cold when he sees a beverage from his past: the Old English 800, forty ounces of delicious malt liquor. Tom can’t believe it, he hasn’t noticed or tasted this stuff since his high school days. So he pulls out a bottle, pops it open, and takes a long drink.
Whooooooooosh: Tom is suddenly blasted through some time space vortex thing, as if he’s travelling through a wormhole to another dimension. He screams out: “Ahhhhhhhh!!!” What is going in? Suddenly: Whoooooosh again. And now Tom is back in the Quik-E-Mart holding the 40 in his hand. But something is different. He slowly catches his reflection in the beer cooler glass door: Holy Shit! He’s 16 again! His grown up clothes remain the same but he is now himself at age sixteen.
Suddenly the store clerk notices sixteen year old Tom holding an open Old English 800 in his hand and yells at him. Tom flees. But where can he go? There’s only one place: to the bachelor pad apartment of his best friend Kurt Byron (played by Seth Green). At first Kurt can’t believe Tom’s new “look” is real, almost certain that they both must have accidentally dosed themselves with liquid acid (it’s happened before). But once Tom convinces Kurt that he is legit 16, the two embark on a plan: part 1: Tom calls his wife (who says he sounds different) and explains that he has to go to Vegas to try to find Kurt who has disappeared (it’s happened before). This buys them some time.
But one thing is certain: they have to find the inventor/alchemist who created Old English 800. And in order to do that they must travel together to London, England as they begin their search for the reclusive British beverage maker named Ambrose Pennywise (Sir Ian McKellan).
Will Tom discover an antidote? What happens when Tom 16 comes face to face with his current wife and family? Can Kurt keep it together and adult-up? And why is this happening to Tom? What does it all mean? These questions and more will be answered in 40 – Love.
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