Members of the Aztec community hunt down one of their own who has spirited away several important items including a disk that has the power to stop time (no, kiddies, it’s not Peggle) and an amulet. Just as he is about to be executed, the amulet glows green and he disappears. So begins Justin Time.
Fast forward to present-day, knuckle-dragging hoods roaming the halls of their high school. Their football-playing leader has got some poor schnook named Harvey up against the lockers demanding that Harvey (Alyx Gaudio) surrender the footballer’s homework. Lucky for Harvey his friend Justin (Chris Laird) happens along and averts a beat down.
Next, we learn that the time-stopping disk has been handed down as a family heirloom, and the current pater familias (Michael Flynn) is showing it to his privileged daughter, Angelique (Shareece Pfeiffer). At the same time, an uncle (Brian Wimmer) is giving his nephew, Justin, an amulet that has been handed down in his family. Justin happens to be half-Shoshone, and the amulet is part of his legacy. His parents’ death is somehow linked to the amulet.
Angelique’s dad uses the disk to stop time and rip off drug dealers. She disapproves even though he uses the money in a variety of charitable applications. The first time we see him stop time, everyone is frozen in place except Justin, whose amulet also stops time. We soon learn that Dad has less noble uses for the disk and, more importantly, that when the disk and amulet are used together, they allow the user to look into the future and travel into the past. Justin, being an intellectual, uses the amulet to play practical jokes on high school jocks.
His Captain Jack Sparrow fixation notwithstanding, Justin is a rather glum individual. It just so happens that he works in a candy shop and Angelique likes candy. Is it magic that brings the two of them together? Magic is at work for Harvey; his heavily bruised eye inexplicably heals from one scene to the next. Soon after Angelique and Justin meet, they are snowboarding together along with Harvey and Dad (on skis).
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