Christian Ditter’s 2024 film The Present takes viewers back in time to explore a family attempting to rewrite their future. Starring Isla Fisher and Greg Kinnear as parents Jen and Eric on the verge of divorce, the movie follows their three children—eldest daughter Emma, son Max, and youngest son Taylor—who discover he can manipulate time with their grandfather’s antique clock.

Nonverbal autistic boy Taylor becomes especially distressed by his parents’ plans to separate. When a mysterious clock arrives at the family home, young Taylor learns he can turn back time by winding its large brass hands.

Seeing a chance to correct the mistakes of one dramatic day and change his parents’ minds, Taylor enlists siblings Emma and Max to help devise a scheme. Repeatedly looping the same dozen hours, the kids launch hilarious hijinks and heartfelt interventions to save their family from splitting apart.

Through its playful...