![]() ![]() He trudges home, soaking wet, where his father ( Michael Rooker) chews him out. and suddenly finds himself lying prone in the library between the bookcases, in a huge gush of gallons of water, gasping and alive. He is certain to die in the freezing water, without air. then falls through the ice and is swept away from the opening by the swift current. Determined, David ventures out on the ice and retrieves it, waving. When he surprises her with a small gift, a snow globe of the Eiffel Tower, teasing bully Mark ( Jesse James) grabs it and throws it out onto the icy surface of the river. Shy teen David Rice ( Max Thieriot) has a crush on pretty Millie ( AnnaSophia Robb), who dreams of travelling the world. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil While in the Coliseum, David meets the jumper Griffin, who explains that the dangerous Roland Cox and his team of paladins are chasing him, and his family and friends are in danger. He decides to visit Millie in Ann Arbor and invites her to visit Rome. Eight years later, David is living in a fancy apartment in New York and having a life full of adventure, traveling to the most exotic places in the world. He decides to run away from home, moving to New York, and uses his power to rob a bank vault. Suddenly, he teleports himself to a library and discovers that he has the ability to jump anywhere he wants. David tries to retrieve the object, but the ice shatters and David falls under the ice. When David gives Millie a snow globe with the Eiffel Tower, the bully Mark Kobold throws it onto a frozen river. The teenage David does not have a good relationship with his father, and he has a crush on his schoolmate Millie Harris. He was left by his mother when he was five years old. Huggoĭavid Rice lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ![]() Although he doesn't want to tell her the entire truth, David also has to decide if telling her the truth would be a safer option for her than not. He also quickly figures out that bringing Millie back into his life has placed her in mortal danger. David may be further illuminated about his situation by someone from his distant past. David learns that he is not alone, that there are fellow jumpers in the world, who are at war with this man, Roland, and his well-organized, high tech and motivated group of religious fanatics, the Paladins, who believe jumpers are an aberration to be destroyed. He does so as he values his life even more now after discovering that someone is after him and seemingly trying to kill him that person who knows that he is a "jumper". He returns to Ann Arbor to reconnect with his high school friend/crush, Millie Harris, and give her the travel adventures she always wanted. He honed his abilities so that he could get away from his high school bullies and his alcoholic single father - his mother who abandoned them when David was five - by stealing money to live a lavish, adventurous, new life in New York City, with everyone from his old life believing him dead. Twenty-something David Rice has known for eight years since he was a teenager in high school in Ann Arbor, that he could teleport himself to anywhere in the world at any time, this skill which he stumbled upon at a most opportune time. ![]()
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