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🌟 "The Map of Tiny Perfect Things" (2021) is a charming sci-fi romantic drama that explores time loops, teenage love, and the beauty of noticing life's small moments. Starring Kathryn Newton and Kyle Allen, this Amazon Prime Original invites you into a day that never ends... unless something perfect changes it.

🧠 In this video, we break down the movie’s plot, explore its deeper themes, and explain how it blends philosophy, emotion, and fun into a meaningful time-loop story.

If you're into Palm Springs, Groundhog Day, or just love movies about second chances, don’t miss this one.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Full Cast & Crew:
Director: Ian Samuels

Writer: Lev Grossman (based on his short story)

Main Cast:

Kyle Allen as Mark

Kathryn Newton as Margaret

Jermaine Harris as Henry

Anna Mikami as Phoebe

Jorja Fox as Greta

Josh Hamilton as Daniel

Genre: Sci-fi / Romance / Teen Drama
Language: English
Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Runtime: 1h 39m
Release Date: February 12, 2021
🧠 Plot Summary:
Mark, a teenage boy stuck in a time loop, spends his days performing small acts of kindness and noticing beautiful moments in his never-ending day. But everything changes when he meets Margaret, a mysterious girl who’s also trapped in the loop.

Together, they embark on a journey to map out all the tiny perfect things happening around them, trying to find meaning — and maybe a way out. But Margaret is hiding something that may change everything...

This movie is not just a love story — it’s a celebration of the beauty in the mundane and the power of letting go.

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Transcript
00:00This story begins with a guy called Mark. He is a very talented guy. One day he wakes up in the
00:06morning and gets ready to go to school. He is kind of a nerdy guy when it comes to science
00:11and physics. On his way to school, he would help people, teach others what to do and again help
00:17people on his way. After school, he would even do his part-time job. He happily walks into a store
00:23to check his lottery ticket, where he even end up winning. Later at the pool he ends up meeting a
00:28girl, who he saves from falling and drops her home. But she isn't interested in him. He goes to
00:34his friend's house and join him while he is playing a video game. Right after they talk about, what if,
00:40the life was also like the game. Where you wake up every day and live the same day again and again.
00:46They talk with lots of contradictions with each other with many different assumptions of
00:50possibilities. Mark suggests that they would be the king of the universe, but his friend thinks
00:55that they would be all alone or like the last man on earth. One night this becomes a reality and
01:00Mark's life changes. He starts to live the same day as a loop. Next time at the pool same thing
01:06happens, but this time a girl stops the interrupt the incident and other girl does not fall. He is
01:11amazed by the girl and starts to follow her. Throughout the story he is explaining all this to his
01:17friend. That Mark is into this girl a lot and really trying to talk to her. He finds a flyer for a
01:23dog, but when he called he find out that this was the wrong number. Mark even goes to a dog shelter
01:28to look for the mysterious girl, but she is nowhere to be found. One day he finally meet her outside of
01:34the store. She seemed a bit bothered by him, he asked her the question if she is also experiencing
01:39the same day happening again and again. She reveals that the same thing is happening with her as well.
01:45Mark explains that he had been looking for her and gets to know that she was using this time to
01:49teach herself how to drive. It feels like they have a lot in common. They both feel like everyone
01:55is sleepwalking and they are the only one awake. Mark takes Margaret to take a look at a funny
02:00incident that makes them both laugh. They do this couple of time before going their own way.
02:05Mark comes home and he finally has Margaret's number and recall it in his mind to give her a call
02:10after the loop. He starts to share pictures of him doing weird things until they finally decide to
02:15meet up. Mark asks about the craziest thing she had ever done, to which she proceeds to take him
02:20somewhere mysterious. Margaret also reveals that her dream is to be an astronaut. Since she does not
02:26know how to drive, she proceed to drive like a maniac until they reach their checkpoint. They sit at the
02:31front of the lake and looks at the eagle's skills of hunting the fish. She leave him at his house and
02:36leave for somewhere important. Mark and Margaret meets up once again. They sit and look at an amazing
02:42moment, where a girl does a stunt for the first time and everyone cheers her. Both of them also
02:47sit on a construction vehicle and talk. They are trying to figure out, what is this time loop all
02:52about? Mark suggests to her that maybe there is something to collect and they can be partners,
02:57like Pokemon cards. But Margaret does not think like Mark and does not want the state to cease.
03:03Somehow she agrees with Mark and decide to go on. At the store, they talk about the four dimensions,
03:08it is around them all the time. Margaret thinks that the whole world is a map in the fourth dimension,
03:14but she won't ever find it. Then they proceed to go and find perfect things. They go on different
03:20places and it seems like everything is already perfect. Sometimes simple things are the most
03:25beautiful things in the world. In the evening, Margaret start to teach Mark about maths. After that,
03:31their eye catches a beautiful cloud and Margaret leaves right after. Later at home, Mark's father is
03:37willing to talk to him about his future and the loop starts again. Mark is looking for some
03:41suggestion to impress Margaret, to which his friends suggest to kiss her. They are waiting
03:46on someone to leave the premises and enter themselves. Inside the building Margaret is
03:51introduced to a self-made moon and space shuttle. Seeing this, she looks like the happiest person
03:57alive. They have a great time while they are inside, until Mark take her on his bicycle and ride
04:02around for a while. Both end up in Mark's house, have a drink and watch a movie. There Mark is
04:08getting ready to kiss her. Before that, she found a map that Mark build or builds every day, of the
04:13places that they went to. Right after, he tried to move his head towards Margaret, but she does not
04:19let him kiss her. She would rather be his friend than a girlfriend. He talks to his friend again and
04:24only get the usual answer. At Mark's home, his father again wants to talk about his future.
04:30Mark suggests that he does not have a future and the time is broken. He ends up insulting his dad
04:36really bad and later tells this to his sister. She explains that their father lost his job and got
04:41fired, their mother is angry at their father. So they are basically stuck now. Later Mark goes and
04:48meet his maths teacher and start to ask him about the time loop. He wants to know the reason it might
04:53be happening. The professor gives a reference that they would just have to take like a plane and get
04:57out of the time loop. Mark is trying to talk to Margaret, but she would just not listen. He yells
05:03at Margaret to stop, she suggests that he is acting like this because she would not kiss him.
05:08They are met with silence for a moment. Later Margaret show him a house, which they break and
05:13reduce their stress in a great way. Mark tell about the incident with his math teacher, but Margaret is
05:19not ready to leave the time loop yet. He tells her that they are stealing people's lives, because they are
05:24stuck. So Margaret decide to find a way to stop the loop. They think maybe going far away is going
05:30to change things for them. So they decide to go to Tokyo. They both end up sitting inside the plane,
05:36but Margaret leave Mark and goes away. She texts him goodbye, to which Mark decide to get off too,
05:41but it was too late. Later it happened once again and the loop did not break. This time Mark asked his
05:47father for his new book and make him happy. He went to his sister's football match and cheered her with
05:52pure passion. He gave away his lottery ticket to a woman and made her day. He appreciated all those
05:59small moments and cheered all the people that he watched, including impressing his math teacher.
06:04But in the end in the verge to impress the skater group, he ends up getting injured. Meanwhile,
06:09he watches Margaret inside the hospital and follows her. He finds out that the reason she always leaves
06:15early is because her mother does not have too long to live. This was devastating to see and makes
06:20Mark shed some tears. Mark wakes up in the morning and run away outside and stops his mother on her
06:26way and hugs her. Last time Margaret asked to her mother about Mark and she said that it is not too
06:31late. She finally understood that she will have to let her mother go. Meanwhile, she also finds out the
06:37dog, who she was looking for from the beginning and goes to Mark's friend's house. It was not her dog
06:42at all and she leave the dog at his house after talking about their time loop situation.
06:47She also understood that Mark was right, there was a perfect moment and she need to find it out.
06:52She goes to her house and looks at the map and go to all those places that Mark and her spend time at.
06:57She is finally able to make a clue and figure out a perfect spot in the map. Which was at the same
07:03pool at 7 in the evening. Next day she goes at the pool and finds Mark sitting there. She reveals about
07:10the pattern and talks about the last perfect moment and it is the key. Mark tell her that he saw her at
07:15the hospital, to which, she reveals how her mother was dying and she wasn't ready for it. So she was
07:21just thinking that the next day cannot happen without her mother, so the loop started. Right after,
07:27Margaret ends up kissing Mark and the perfect moment should be complete here. After meeting her mother,
07:32she hold Mark's hand and goes outside where it starts to thunderstorm and rain heavily. The loop was
07:37all complete and they hug each other with pure passion. Next day, they take the lost dog to its owner
07:43and the movie ends here.

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