Childhood friends who kept in touch through college and drifted apart at the onset of "real" life of marriages, kids, cross-country moves, and one bad riff btwn two of them that never got resolved are brought together again when one of them hears about a re-show of an old concert that got cancelled over 20 years ago. He sends out an email, makes some calls, and finally gets in touch with two of them, but can't get in touch with the third one, who was the guy who got so miffed so long ago. They agree to a mancation to Seattle to see the group, but they have to get their hands on the original tickets. This sends them on a journey through their past as they dig through old things in search of these tickets and they only have one week to find them. One guy has to go to his mom's and sift through the attic which is full of his father's things who died more than 10 years ago - problems were unresolved, his solo journey is to get to know his father as a man and come to peace with his death and their problems. Guy #2 has to dig through some stuff in storage and comes across old pictures of a fleeting romance with a girl he'd fallen in love with while studying abroad so long ago who he never followed up with because he was to scared to make the next move - he's married with kids, his solo journey is whether he wants to get in touch just to see "what if". Guy #3 has absolutely no idea where his ticket would be and has to rack his brain with the other two guys' help and remembers Guy #4 has his since he bought it... which is the Guy who's so miffed from so long ago. Together they have to get in touch with him and convince him to forget the past and come on this last hurrah. But there's a catch - I don't know what it is, but there is on (haha). So they have to overcome that together, while figuring out their own individual journeys and GET TO THAT CONCERT!

Despina, you've got a huge target audience: Baby Boomers! And they LOVE movies. And rock and roll. Again, this seems like an obvious movie to me.

Yeah, a total no-brainer. After reading it again just now it reminds me of Hot Tub Time Machine mixed with Almost Famous, Detroit Rock City, and Wild Hogs... or something. Can't wait to see what Dumb Idea Friday has in store...

Scott and Despina, you have two great movies there so I'm going to take this in a different direction: a comedy of scale. Start with the band, cancelled concert, back in town after decades. There's a new guy in town. Slick carpetbagger type. Hotshot. Schemer. He's trying to push out the local mom-and-pop businesses and replace this with various chain stores that he franchises. Nobody likes him. He's not off to a good start. He's just opened [a particularly business with a lot of square footage] and decides as a big opening promotion to bring "that band" back into town. He promises to honor all the old tickets, confident no one has kept them. But EVERYONE has. At first it's just one or two local people, ashamed to do business with him, justifying to themselves that it's okay because it's free, sneaking in to redeem their old tickets. Then the trickle turns into a river. Then a flood. There's no way he can honor all these tickets and it's going to ruin him. But the problem is bigger than that: the idea of honoring the old concert tickets is quaint, it hits boomer nostalgia, and it becomes a national news story. And there are people all over the country who still have tickets to that gig. At which point, the concert isn't just his problem: it's a point of pride for the town. So all of the pillars of the community, who are coincidentally the people who he's been trying to put out of business, have to hold their noses and band together to make the concert work in a last-ditch chance to put/keep their town on the map as a tourist destination. Their only shot to save themselves is to save their nemesis. Lots of comedy, quaint character adventures, and small town politics ensues. The outsider gets an education in "how things work here" and the value of the town as it is. Lots of scrambling to brace the town for the onslaught of the concert. The concert takes place. Lots of hitches, but they pull it off when absolutely every single person in the town pulls together. The outsider is flabbergasted. The coda: he's turned [the concert facility] over to a good cause (like a local school or hospital) that desperately needs the space, he's married to a local girl, and he's running his own small business, and he and the missus are spearheading the campaign to block some obnoxious big box chain store from moving into the town.