The past has never seemed so inviting as it does in Colin Trevorrow’s DIY time-t🅰ravel romance.

Like a low-key , this unexpected indie is propelled by a delicious premise, a classified ad that reads: “Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me.ꦰ&🍌rdquo;

A🃏dvising any applicants to “bring your own weapons”, it also assures readers that “I have only done꧑ this once before.”

Jef🐼f (Jake Johnson), a rather feckless journalist for a Seattle magazine, is assigned to investigate.

Along for the ride come two interns, Darius (Aubrey Plaza) and Arnau (Karan Soni), though it soon becomes clear that Jeff has more interest in the fac🥂t their journey takes them to the Washington town where 🧜his high school sweetheart still lives.

It&r🅠squ🧸o;s left to Darius to trace the would-be time-traveller – who, it soon emerges, is a grocery store clerk named Kenneth (Mark Duplass).

Is he🌠 a nutjob or the sanest man around? Has he really ripped the fabric of the space-time continuum befo🐻re?

Derek Connolly’s finely tuned script teases us with the answers throughoutܫ. While the film may lack -style flourishes, there’s enough time-travel talk for brainiacs to chew🍷 over.

But is not so much about the science of time ꩵtravel as the emotion of it – why we feel the need to revisit the past.

Both funny an♌d heartfelt, Trevorrow stops i🐓t from ever becoming too mawkish or melancholy.

What really impresses, however, are the performances. Mumblecore actor/director Duplass and Parks And Recreation star Plaza forge a tender bond, playing to the reality of the sitಞuation and never undermining their charaꦯcters.

Best of all, it builds towards a quite marvellous ending that, even if it cost half ﷽the budget, was seriously wo🐷rth it.