Somewhere in Time
Directed by Jeanot Szwarc
Written by Richard Matheson
1980/US
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First viewing/Amazon Prime rental
Elise McKenna: There is so much to say… I cannot find the words. Except for these: ‘I love you.’
This time travel romance didn’t really grab me.
Christopher Reeve is a modern-day playwright. While he is at an old turn of the 19th century grand hotel, he becomes infatuated with a portrait of actress Jane Seymour. Infatuation becomes obsession and he struggles to find a way to go back to 1912 to reunite with her.
He succeeds but finds she is under the thumb of manager W.F. Robinson (Christopher Plummer).
This was OK and very romantic but I found the pacing slow and didn’t care much what happened to the characters.
The film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume design.
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