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A charming, witty, passionate romantic drama about a love transcending space and time, Somewhere In Time is an old-fashioned film in the best sense of that term.
Variety Staff, Variety
Somewhere in Time
Someday in the past he will find her...
1980 · 1h 43m · PG
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Jeannot Szwarc
Overview
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
Director and cast
- Jeannot Szwarc Director
- Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier
- Jane Seymour as Elise McKenna
- Christopher Plummer as William Fawcett Robinson
- Teresa Wright as Laura Roberts
- Bill Erwin as Arthur Biehl
- George Voskovec as Dr. Gerald Finney
- Susan French as Older Elise
- John Alvin as Arthur's Father
- Eddra Gale as Genevieve
- Audrey Bennett as Richard's Date
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Director Jeannot Szwarc strains hard for spectacular visual effects, though he's barely able to compose a competent close-up.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The movie surrounds its love story with such boring mumbo jumbo about time travel that we finally just don't care.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The [Grand H]otel and Mackinac [Island] are spectacularly lovely, but fail to give substance to this ephemeral endeavor.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
This must go down as a missed opportunity.
Time Out
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