See You Yesterday

In SEE YOU YESTERDAY, best friends CJ (Eden Duncan-Smith) and Sebastian (Dante Crichlow) are two of the smartest students at the elite New York City Bronx High School of Science. The movie starts at the end of their junior year, as they work to complete a time machine that they hope will win them the science expo and get them into elite colleges. Every day they leave school for home, a rough Brooklyn neighborhood where street smarts are more important for survival than high IQs. CJ's older brother, Calvin (Astro), has a job washing dishes at a fast-food barbecue joint. Both siblings mourn the loss of their father, who died as active duty military. Their mom, who is loving and supportive, does hair in their apartment to make money. Sebastian is being raised by his warm and caring grandparents, and he and CJ fix cell phones and laptops in his garage to make the money to support their big project. Several test runs fail, but within minutes of successfully launching themselves into one day in the past, they change events and get someone killed in an encounter with racist, overly violent cops. When CJ and Sebastian return to the present, CJ insists they return further into the past to prevent the death, which causes another death instead. CJ's hot temper, impatience, and bad judgment keep causing problems that require going back and fixing tragedies that revolve around the reality of living in a poor neighborhood where desperate, undereducated youth commit crimes against fellow neighbors and the police treat everyone like criminals.