Director Jonathan Frakesk deftly mixes laughs with thrills in the sci-fi adventure film Clockstoppers. Zak Gibbs (Jesse Bradford) is an ordinary teenager who suddenly obtains extraordinary powers when he stumbles upon a mysterious wristwatch-type device that can literally stop time in its tracks! To Zak, it's the perfect gadget to impress Francesca (Paula Garces), the beautiful new foreign exchange student at school. But to those more passionately familiar with the incredible timepiece-a hapless scientist (French Stewart) and his sinister boss (Michael Biehn) - the ultimate power of the entire world literally lies in the hands of whoever possesses the amazing apparatus. They want it back-at any cost-and that's when Zak and Francesca find themselves unwittingly swept into a thrilling, high-tech race against time!