IMANI LEWIS as ELENA MOORE

"I am a soccer coach, not E.T.'s babysitter."

"oh, that's a great movie! I watched it with you through your window three nights ago."

"you watch movies through my freaking window?"

"...no."

DAVID CORENSWET as LIAM WACHOWSKI

"the little blue guy is growing on me."

"yeah, don't tell him, but if anything happened to him, I'd kill everyone he's ever crossed paths with."

"that's kind of intense, ellie."

"ellie?"

"sorry. guess we're not at the nickname stage yet."

"no, I like it. ellie's good, at least coming from you."

TIKA SUMPTER as MADDIE WACHOWSKI

"I tell my husband to entertain my sister for a few days while I'm gone, and he makes her a global terrorist."

"well, he is a cop. not surprised he targeted me."

"oh, shut up and go back to making eyes at liam — who is here why, by the way?"

"it's a global terrorist convention, I guess."

JAMES MARSDEN as TOM WACHOWSKI

"wear your seatbelt."

"what are you gonna do? arrest me?"

"I might!"

"there's a freaking alien in your passenger side seat, but you're worried about my seatbelt?"

"if there is a scratch on you, your sister kills me. buckle up."

BEN SCHWARTZ as SONIC

"look, I may not know much about human culture, but getting together at her sister's wedding will be tacky. don't be tacky, liam."

"but it's hawaii! it's so romantic."

"rachel does not need another reason to hate the wachowski men."

COLLEEN O'SHAUGHNESSY as TAILS

"I will make an athlete out of you yet, tails."

"I'd rather you didn't. I'll stick to my inventions."

"don't say that. that's something a nerd would say. I hate nerds."

"isn't liam a nerd?"

"well, yeah, which proves my point, I think."

IDRIS ELBA as KNUCKLES

"bring me the grapes, or I bring you death."

"do not take that attitude with me unless you'd like to find out what it feels like to be a soccer ball."

"I wanna know what it feels like to be a soccer ball!"

"stay out of this, sonic!"

ADAM PALLY as WADE WHIPPLE

"sometimes, a friend group is a cop in his mid-thirties, a red space alien who is breaking the rules of his grounding, and a middle school girls' soccer coach whose boyfriend is gonna kick said cop's ass when he returns her home from the cross-country bowling trip."

"yeah, my phone broke during that whole life-threatening fight, so he's probably freaking out. he's probably got that little freaked out look on his face right now even as we speak."

"yes, him and the donut lord both have the same puny expression of terror."

"let's not repeat that when we get back home, knucks."

in which liam wachowski, a freshly-graduated engineer, comes to visit his brother that he hasn't seen in years and comes across two things he never expected — love and a speedy space alien.

OR

in which elena moore wants to be closer to her big sister after finishing high school and accepts a job coaching soccer in montana — little does she know the brother-in-law who never showed at the wedding will speed his way right into her heart.