In 1990, there was a movie staring Jim Belushi called Mr. Destiny. In the movie, he wasn't happy with the way his life had gone, and he thinks back to when he was younger. He struck out in the big baseball game. He wondered what it would have been like if he had hit the ball.
This brings to mind an enjoyable Robin Williams and Kurt Russell movie called The Best Of Times. Robin's character dropped the ball in the big football game when he was younger and still beats himself up over it. In that case, he organizes a rematch years later.
Mr. Destiny basically has Belushi's character meet a guardian angel of sorts at a bar when his car breaks down. The character is played by Michael Caine. He fixes him a special drink he calls Spilled Milk, the one drink there's no use crying over. He drinks it, and his past is altered. He hit a home run in that game.
Not only did he marry the girl he had a crush on at school. He was running her father's business and for some reason was cheating on his wife. That ultimately messes up this dream life of his. Of course, the moral of the story is that his life was better all along.
That's an "in the movies" message that sometimes I get bored with. They always learn that life is better the way it was, but I wonder if that is really true sometimes. I'm sure it is in some cases. I think it's possible that if a person could go back and alter a big moment in their past, life might be much better.
In any case, this wasn't a bad movie. Linda Hamilton play's the wife of Belushi's character, and Jon Lovitz plays his best friend. Lovitz later starred in one of my favorite movies, High School High. I love his idealistic, yet clueless character in that movie, but that's for another review. Mr. Destiny is a pretty good movie and worth checking out, in my opinion.
