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Somewhere in Time (1980)

October. 03,1980
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7.2
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PG
| Fantasy Drama Romance
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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 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

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Lawbolisted
1980/10/03

Powerful

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Lucybespro
1980/10/04

It is a performances centric movie

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Intcatinfo
1980/10/05

A Masterpiece!

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ThedevilChoose
1980/10/06

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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dgdxfilmsinc
1980/10/07

I never heard of this movie until early 2018. I only watched it because Christopher Reeve was a great actor and I loved him as Superman. I've never seen Chris act without a red cape before, so I thought it was my responsibility to give him a chance to win me over again without his super powers. Boy, did he win me over with his performance in this movie.At first I thought Chris was playing Clark Kent again, but as the movie progressed I saw that Chris's character was more complex. He has a goal, a desire, a need. And through this performance you can feel every emotion he feels emotionally and physically. You feel the suspense that is creeping in and out of this unique time travel movie.This movie is an example of why I love Film. It's a Time Travel Movie, with a unique idea (different from another Time Travel film like Back to the Future or Bill and Ted), powerful performances (by Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour), and a powerful score (by the great John Barry), and it delivers something fresh that'd I'd love to revisit and analyze even more. From what I understand the writer of this film wrote for The Twilight Zone and I Am Legend, and it really shows. This film is almost like a longer episode of The Twilight Zone but without the great Rod Serling making a cameo. I can't recommend this movie enough for fans of great films. It has some flaws with the "science" or "theories" of Time Travel, but everything else overshadows the few flaws. It's a film that is too beautiful for words. Check it out.

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Gabriel Chandra
1980/10/08

I will agree that Somewhere in time is the best movie of Christopher Reeves. He did great job in here and Jane Seymoure looks so beautiful and perfect lady but her acting just average and look unconvincing when she fall in love with Richard. Seems too fast and forced. She even doesn't have sympathetic with his manager who had found and raise her as a star for many years. But for me, the acting of Christopher Plummer is superb... excellent performance as villain. His character more interesting and makes me sympathetic with his pain.The biggest complain about this movie, it's seems give audience some mysteries like... how could the older Elise can recognise Richard ? Or how Robinson know about Richard ? And since Robinson is Richard's rival, he deserve get a little bit story about his ending... The film just leave him without any explanation. That's so awful

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disinterested_spectator
1980/10/09

In just about any time travel movie you have ever seen, science and technology are involved somehow. Never mind exactly what that scientific explanation is for time travel or what the technological gadget is that makes it possible, because it's all a bunch of hooey anyway. We go along with it not because we believe for one second that such a thing is possible, but because we are willing to suspend disbelief for the sake of a good story. So we know we are in for a different kind of time travel movie when the man that advises Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) about traveling through time is a philosophy professor.According to the philosophy professor, if you want to go back in time, you have to think really hard about the period of time to which you wish to go, while making sure there is nothing in the room that will remind you of the present, such as a recently minted coin. In particular, if Collier wants to go back to August, 1912, he must think August, 1912. It reminded me of Professor Harold Hill in "The Music Man" (1962) telling the students who just got their new musical instruments that they don't need to learn how to read music or the technique of playing the instruments they now own. They just need to "Think the Minuet."Collier wants to go back to 1912 because that is when a woman lived with whom he fell in love while looking at her picture. Now, if you can't find a woman to fall in love with in the time period in which you exist, you have problems that a time machine can't solve. But that aside, it all started when that woman, Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour), now very old, gave him a watch and said, "Come back to me," and then walked away. Why she didn't stick around and tell him to read the professor's book on time travel and to "think 1912," we do not know. And what is going on between them in general, we do not know. Of course, there is some kind of meant-for-each-other destiny involved, maybe with a little reincarnation thrown in, but it's hard to tell, because the movie never makes that clear.I know what it is like to be in love, but if I managed to travel back in time just by thinking about it, I would not be able to contain myself. I would have to sit in a chair and contemplate the implications of something I had heretofore thought impossible. Love would just have to wait. On the other hand, if I did catch up with the woman in question, I would have to blurt out, "I fell in love with your picture, so I came back from the future to be with you. If you don't believe me, just take a look at this penny. Oops!"Finally, because Collier fell asleep while he was thinking 1912, we are never sure whether he just dreamed it or not. In fact, at the end of the movie, he seems to be in a catatonic trance. So, maybe what we just watched was the hallucination of a loony. In fact, that really is the only way to make any sense out of this movie.

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David Diaz (Bonnascope)
1980/10/10

He spend years looking for this film, look on the premise: Christopher Reeve + Time Travel. But once I found it and saw it ... everything changed. I felt ripped off (although I found it cheap on 2nd hand DVD) and completely disappointed. I know this review will have many "dislikes" but I do not care, that's what I felt when I saw it. It is THE WORST TIME TRAVIEL MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN. Look, I've seen all kinds of methods to travel back in time: Cars, telephone booths, XIXs machines, doors, necklaces, family heritage, etc. But when I saw that in this film: You can travel in time with SUGGESTION... No I couldn't believe it. No, I'm not kidding. And all this comes from the mind of novelist Richard Matheson (creator of "I Am Legend" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man" among many others).It turns out that our lead (Christopher Reeve) advised by his former philosophy teacher, tells him that only repeating to himself again and again, that we're on "X" date, you're gonna go to that date. We suggestion our mind and is eventually it send you back in time. Besides being clearly impossible... It's ridiculous! It's like saying that if we rub our hands we can get that our body begins to fly. Or if we hit very strong two bronze horns'll open an inter-dimensional gate... Ridiculous and impossible to develop a strong plot. This is what happens to this movie.Above all, it is a romantic drama, no one intended to make it a science-fiction movie. The script is an overdose of teenage love. He reminded me that even the "Twilight" saga, boy and girl who fall in love and no one thinks carefully about the consequences of their relationship, because they are too immature and stupid to think about it. Reeve falls in love with a 1912 photography of an actress. A photo!. Although everything begins with the scene of the old woman giving him the watch and her line "Come back to me" just start the movie. It is not until it gets to investigate (obsessively) that photo, that you just discover that the girl in the picture and the old woman are the same person (without seeing the trailer and I knew I could happened). So he decides to do everything possible to travel back in time from 1980 to 1912, from the same hotel where she was 68 years ago. Suprisely, he discovers that he really traveled back in time, when he finds (in less than 2 minutes) the 1912 guest-book to find that his name was inscribed on it. So, the fact is that after hours repeating the message... Reeve's MADE IT (Duh) and he travels back to 1912 to meet and hang out with her (Elise). And just in a day, he will conquering her and make her fall in love with him. A stranger who behaves like a slimy stalker. It seems to me that it will never works in the real world, but i worked here...My conclusion: An immature script, not only by a central shaft that sinks from since the beginning, but also the characters and the purely adolescent brat plot. Best thing in the film: Christopher Reeve and the score. The rest sucks.Ah the 4 is because the performance of the actors but would be a 2. Which by the way, in the making of the film, even the director himself said that he didn't know how it would sell the story to any producer knowing how the main character travels in time...

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