When an orphaned child genius named Lewis has his science fair project ruined by forces from the future he must join with a strange boy who claims to be from the future to steal his invention back, fix it and save a new found family from a bleak future where mind control devices enslave the masses.

Characters from the film (Frankie the frog and his band playing "I Heard it Through the Grapevine") were used in an anti-cell-phone commercial to encourage movie audiences to turn their cell phones off and behave appropriately.

Grandpa Bud:
What's your name, Fruit Head?

Continuity: When the time machine crashes Wilbur is seen holding onto the steering wheel of the time machine, clearly detached from the time machine. At the next scene when Lewis and Wilbur are looking at the damage done to the time machine we see that the steering wheel is intact with the time machine.

Music by Rufus Wainwright & Marius De Vries
Lyrics by Rufus Wainwright
Performed by Rufus Wainwright
Produced by Marius De Vries
Orchestra Arranged by Marius De Vries
Additional Orchestration by Jennifer Hammond
Recorded by James T. Hill, Jason Boshoff, John Brough
Mixed by Andy Bradfield