At the rehearsal a lot of things go wrong, with Torrey quitting, Karl and Monica deciding to ditch "Ellie", and she tells Mike she's rethinking the wedding, which upsets Katherine. Katherine takes Fletcher on a walk and tells him that parents lie and he will never go to Vegas. To make matters worse Karl and Monica come over and say that she has been acting super weird today and says she is focused on the hourglass which makes them upset. Ellie then asks Katherine to ask Adam to put the hourglass on the hunt which she agrees and tells him but he says no because he is the list master which causes her to say it is a childish game which makes him upset. Then she realizes that if the hourglass is on the hunt then she can go get it. Then Katherine reveals the piercing which she tells her that she is grounded.Įllie then goes to the hourglass store with Fletcher but realizes it's out of business. Katherine starts talking about why that's been happening which is about her dad which makes Ellie upset. When Ellie and Katherine go to Ellie's parent-teacher conference the principal tells them that when Ellie gets bored she skips class for eleven days, which makes Ellie and Katherine both upset. Back at Ellie's school Savannah keeps bullying Katherine and dumps her tea on her, and when Katherine goes to the restroom to clean up the tea she realizes that Ellie's been keeping a belly button piercing from her, which upsets her a lot. When Ellie and Mike do their dance it goes awry and Ellie destroys the cake which upsets her helper Torrey. When Katherine goes to class she tells Karl and Monica that she won’t be going to the hunt, which surprises them. He tells her if she is going to the hunt which she asks why nobody cares about their grades but then says why the Hunt is a big deal which he says he wants to live up to his brother and wants to bring people together which Katherine thinks is very mature and goes off to class. Ellie's crush Adam comes to Katherine and asks her for her lunch, which confuses Katherine but she gives it to him anyway. When Katherine arrives at Ellie's school, Savannah, a mean girl, bullies her and says that she will win the Hunt, which worries her. Katherine goes to Ellie's school and Ellie stays at the house. They realize that Ellie's hourglass switched them and must find the identical hourglass given to Katherine, but realize that Katherine sold hers and they must find it. When Katherine follows Ellie to her room they fight over the hourglass and switch bodies, frightening them.
Katherine asks Mike to take Fletcher to school, and Ellie storms to her room. Katherine demands that Ellie apologize, but Ellie refuses to apologize. Fletcher's pet bunny goes missing and Mike says he will help find the bunny, Ellie snaps at Mike and says that he is not their dad.
When they start eating breakfast, Ellie asks her mother if she can go to the Hunt, but her mother says no because it scares her. She and Katherine fight and Katherine wishes that Ellie would take more responsibility for herself, while Ellie wishes her mother would understand what it is like to be her. To add to her stress, she is also organizing and catering the wedding. Meanwhile, her mom Katherine Blake is preparing for her impending wedding to her fiancé Mike. Fletcher, insulted, then steals an hourglass that Ellie's late father had given to her, thereby upsetting his sister. Ellie's brother Fletcher comes in and does a magic trick, but she is unimpressed and tells him to get out. The film starts off with Ellie and her two friends, Karl and Monica, discussing participating in a big activity with their classmates called "the Hunt", an annual school-wide scavenger hunt. ( August 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.