Back to Q82

At a glance

Back to Q82, is a 2017 Kuwaiti movie, directed by Ahmed Siddiqui, and starring Jassim Al-Nabhan, Abdul Emam Abdullah, Khaled Al Mudhaffar, with a runtime of 105 minutes. Content rating: PG.

Overview

Back to Q82 is a Kuwaiti science-fiction comedy film that shuttles between present-day Kuwait and the year 1982. When a physicist invents a time-traveling car, his determined daughter secretly takes it for a spin — not for adventure, but to repair the fractured relationship between her divorced parents before it ever falls apart. Stranded in 1982 Kuwait, she discovers her mother has already remarried a troublesome man, and must navigate a world decades before her own birth with the help of two young witnesses who saw her vanish. Back home, her father faces suspicion over her disappearance but stays silent rather than risk being thought mad. The film blends warm nostalgia for early-1980s Kuwaiti life with comic fish-out-of-water situations and a heartfelt family drama at its core.

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