History Literature / Replay

* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: ''Starsea''.

** However, one major example of ArtisticLicenseHistory occurs in the third replay: Jeff attends a nightclub performance given by Sidney Bechet in Paris in 1963. In reality, Bechet died in 1959.

** However, one major example of ArtisticLicenseHistory occurs in the third replay: Jeff attends a nightclub performance given by Sidney Bechet in Paris in 1963 or 1964. In reality, Bechet died in 1959.

* WhoShotJFK: Jeff tries to stop Lee Harvey Oswald a week beforehand, but realizes there must be a larger conspiracy because the assassination still happens, just with a different shooter.

A 1986 Novel by Ken Grimwood.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Jeff's heart attack happens in 1988, but the book was published in 1986 - two years before 1988. The most up-to-date event covered is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_disaster The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]], but the author remains purposefully vague on 1987 and 1988, because they hadn't actually happened yet. While there were arguably plenty of notable events in those years, luckily there was nothing on the level of another [[WorldWarII Pearl Harbor]] or a 9/11.

** Pamela does this as well; during one replay she creates a hugely successful film called ''Starsea'', recruiting two unknowns to helm the project--director Creator/StevenSpielberg and special effects producer GeorgeLucas.

* MentalTimeTravel

* GroundhogPeggySue

Jeff Winston is 43 and stuck in a loveless marriage and dead end job. At 1:06pm on October 18, 1988, he has a sudden, fatal heart attack and the next moment finds himself 18 in his college dorm room in May of 1963. He makes a killer bet on who he already knows will win the Kentucky Derby and uses his winnings and knowledge of the future to create a Fortune 500 company. By the time he gets back to 1988 he is wealthy and powerful... and on October 18, 1988 he suffers another fatal heart attack, waking up in 1963 again.

* WhatYearIsThis

* TheJailBaitWait: (Also see Legal Jailbait, below) The first time Jeff and Pam replay together, Pam is in her mid-teens. [[spoiler: Pam skews late, and Jeff causes some uncomfortable moments with Pam's family before Pam arrives for her replay. Once she replays they spend time together on their "dates to the movies", by going to a hotel instead since they both can recite the plot of any movie playing from memory.]]

* LegalJailbait: Jeff replays to his early 20's while Pam is 14. This doesn't stop them from romance.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: A different shooter kills JFK after Jeff's intervention, setting up the quasi-government agency that hold Jeff and Pamela prisoner a few replays later, trying to extract information from them.]]

* TheSlowPath

Jeff Winston is 43 and stuck in a loveless marriage and dead end job. At 1:06pm on October 18, 1988, he has a sudden, fatal heart attack and the next moment finds himself 18 in his college dorm room in May of 1963. He makes a killer bet on who he already knows will win the Kentucky Derby and uses his winnings and knowledge of the future to create a Fortune 500 company. By 1988 he is wealthy and powerful... and on October 18, 1988 he suffers another fatal heart attack, waking up in 1963 again.

* HistoryMarchesOn: Several times.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: With appearances of the [[http://www.wang1200.org/ Wang 1200]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%22_type_C_videotape Sony VTR]]. The following quote happens in 1974:
-->"Near the window was a large desk stacked with books and notebooks, and in the center of it sat a bulky, greenish-gray device that incorporated a video screen, a keyboard, and a printer. He frowned quizzically at it. What was she doing with a home computer so early? ... 'It's not a computer,' Pamela said. 'Wang 1200 word processor, one of the first. No disk drive, just cassettes, but still beats a typewriter. Want a beer?'"

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Written in the 1980's, when people would find many of these events nostalgic. Now that it has been almost 25 years since it came out, it's more of a time capsule of the 25 year period.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Ken Grimwood was writing a sequel when he died in 2003.

Yep, he's stuck in a 25 year GroundhogDayLoop. Each time he loops back though, he's a little further along his original timeline - and what's going to happen when the loop back point and the day in 1988 eventually meet?

He meets Pamela, a woman who is also stuck in the loop. Together they find some stability in their lives and seek out others who may be looping themselves.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: [[spoiler: One replay Jeff and Pamela think they are improving things by going public. The don't, big time.]]

* TheJailBaitWait: (Also see Legal Jailbait, below) The first time Jeff and Pam replay together, Pam is in her mid-teens. [[spoiler: Pam skews late, and Jeff causes some uncomfortable moments with Pam's family before Pam arrives for her replay. Once she replays they spend time together on their "dates to the movies" which they spend in a hotel - but they usually go to a hotel instead - they both can recite the plot of any movie playing from memory.]]

* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler: Jeff's daughter from his first replay, who he can never get back.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Jeff's heart attack happens in 1988, but the book was published in 1986 - two years before 1988. The most up-to-date event covered is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_disaster The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]], but the author remains purposefully vague on 1987 and 1988, because they hadn't actually happened yet. While there were arguably plenty of notable events in those years, luckily there was nothing on the level of another PearlHarbor or a 9/11.

* TakeThat: A mild one, where Jeff first meets Pamela and asks her about her filmmaking plans after ''Starsea''. At one point he suggests that if she produces ''RaidersOfTheLostArk'', she should "talk to [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg]] about [[IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom the first sequel]]".

* TakeThat: A mild one, where Jeff first meets Pamela and asks her about her filmmaking plans after ''Starsea''. At one point he suggests that if she produces ''RaidersOfTheLostArk'', she should "talk to [[StevenSpielberg Spielberg]] about [[IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom the first sequel]]".

** Pamela does this as well; during one replay she creates a hugely successful film called ''Starsea'', recruiting two unknowns to helm the project--director StevenSpielberg and special effects producer GeorgeLucas.