This movie is rated as a comedy but it is much more. It has a very positive message of looking ahead, starting afresh, etc.. Very much recommended...

Synopsis:
It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving fast enough. She’s ignored by the hip kids in school and the cute guy she has a crush on barely knows her name. No longer content to spend time only with her best friend and neighbour, Matt Flamhaff, Jenna invites the cool kids to her 13th birthday party. But the party is a disaster. Jenna is humiliated when she’s locked in the closet for a game of “Seven Minutes in Heaven” and everyone deserts her.

Alone in the closet, Jenna makes an earnest wish. If only she could be all grown up, she’d have the life she’s always wanted.

Miraculously, her wish comes true.

The next day, when Jenna emerges from the closet, it’s 2004 and she’s 30 years old. What’s more, she is a gorgeous successful woman (Jennifer Garner) with a great job (editing her favourite magazine - Poise) and a fabulous Fifth Avenue apartment. She is finally cool and popular.

The only hitch? She has absolutely no idea how she got there.

Initially frightened but gradually enchanted by her new life, Jenna soon realizes there’s something missing — Matt. When she looks him up, she is horrified to discover that she and Matt (Mark Ruffalo) are no longer in contact and he is engaged to be married.

Jenna learns that having it all is not enough and decides to take a second chance at first love.

I've seen this movie. It isn't bad.

Thanks Jeff ;)

Interesting how easily Jenna made the adjustment. Of course, it was only 17 years she went forward (from 1987 to 2004). She wasn't going to scream and faint when a picture started talking.

Trivia time: Christa Allen, who played the 1987 Jenna, would also play a younger version of a Jennifer Garner character in the movie, Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past.