Somewhere in Time | | Cast : | Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour | | Director : | Jeannot Szwarc | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 01, 1980 | | DVD Released Date : | October 31, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | June 18, 2005 | | Summary | One of My All Time Favorite Movies! | Content
 | I saw this movie about 12 years ago, and I have never forgotten it! It's one of those movies that draws you in easily, and holds you until the very end.
I am generally not one for sappy love stories - If I'm going to watch a movie about romance, I prefer it to be a romantic comedy. But this film was different...
Somewhere in Time is about a playright who, on the opening night of his first play sees a woman brush by him saying "come back to me", as she gives him an antique-looking watch. Of course he becomes intrigued by this, and upon researching just who this woman is, finds out that she was a stage actress - many, many years before.
He then travels to a beautiful resort where this woman used to perform, and sees her picture hanging there. Upon seeing it, he becomes obsessed with "finding" her. He is left with the problem, though, of how to find her when she's been dead for quite some time!
With the hopes of reuniting with what appears to be a long lost love, he utilizes a method of self-hypnosis to traverse time. Will he find her??? Can he "keep" her???
I don't want to spoil it for you, so I'll refrain from telling you just how this story ends. Suffice it to say that if you watch it, you'll probably never forget it!
Overall, I would recommend this movie to anyone who still believes in love... Who knows, maybe it will wind up being your favorite too. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | "Is it you?" | Content
| The ultimate modern-day four-hankie chick-flick, "Somewhere In Time", starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, and Teresa Wright (in a bit part) is an unabashedly sentimental, romantic, beautiful film that never fails to bring me to tears.
Reeve portrays Richard Collier, a young Chicago playwright, who, on the opening night of his first play, is approached by an elderly woman who pleads with him to "Come back to me" as she presses an antique watch into his hands. Intrigued, he starts to do some research and discovers that the woman was, in her youth, a beautiful and popular stage actress named Elise McKenna. He travels to a resort where she had performed, and becomes obsessed with a photographic portrait he sees on display there. (Next comes the really fantasy part) He decides he has to learn how he can travel back in time so that he may meet her, and by self-hypnosis, combined with other methods/props, they meet and fall in love. But trouble rears its ugly head in the form of Elise's overbearing and overprotective manager (Plummer).
Christopher Reeve is at his handsome prime here, and his performance is wonderfully Gary Cooperish-tall-awkward-naive-in love. Jane Seymour is at her most patrician, slyly feline best (her other best performance, IMO, has been in the TV remake of "East of Eden", which is actually a very fine film in its own right). Their performances, along with Christopher Plummer's, the beautiful soundtrack by John Barry, which is almost better than the film itself, and the costumes combine to make a great tearjerker along the lines of the old classics.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 21, 2005 | | Summary | My all time favorite movie. | Content
| No other movie comes close to this one in capturing that eternal--magical-- unguarded moment between two lovers. If you cannot appreciate this movie, you have never really been in love, you've never really kissed someone you loved.
Have you ever kissed, and in the midst of it you felt yourself being lifted, your feet are off the ground, you get that sense of being SUSPENDED, up in the clouds, gently, slowly spinning, all inside one kiss. Well, this movie is like that experience.
If you want to be reminded of what that experience was like back then, watch this movie. If you want to know what it is like to truly LIVE, watch this movie.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 03, 2005 | | Summary | Not Another One Like It !! | Content
| In my opinion, "Somewhere In Time" is the best and most beautiful love story ever put on the screen.
The music is so hauntingly beautiful, listening to it almost puts me in a trance... It sounds like an orchestra of angels in Heaven playing, with God as the Arranger, Composer, and Director. The music score is the life-blood of this movie. It is a MAJOR factor in the movie's overall effect.
I have to mention one scene... the scene where Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour)and Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) go out together for the first time in the horse drawn carriage... later they are out on the lawn where a man is doing a painting on an easel. The next scene shows a side-shot of Christopher Reeve studying something very intently and talking about it at the same time (but you can't hear what he is saying because they muted it out)... in this scene Jane Seymour is facing him but is also facing very much toward the camera, wearing a beautiful dress, white gloves, red lipstick, and a big, beautiful hat... the camera moves in closer and closer toward her face, she blinks her eyes and smiles as she looks intently at her newly found love... In this scene of only about 10 - 15 seconds, JANE SEYMOUR IS SO ** INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL ** THERE ARE SIMPLY NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE HER. SHE LOOKS LITERALLY PERFECT. HER BEAUTY IS BEYOND COMPARE (This scene I am referring to is immediately before the scene where they are walking together on the shoreline in the distance toward the big, red lighthouse).
And lastly, it also occurred to me that "Somewhere In Time" is quite possibly the most passionate love story/movie ever made without ANY ** explicit ** sexual scenes... and I am most thankful it didn't have any... it would have greatly taken away from, if not ruined, the entire movie.
Obviously, I recommend it very highly. But it is still always a good idea to rent first, to be sure you want it for keeps, then buy it if you do. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 24, 2005 | | Summary | I would like to see the second half of this movie | Content
| I remember it was the day before my 14th birthday that I saw the first half of this movie, and then my mom got home from work, and she's like "Get Back To Murder On The Orient Express". That was my reading class assignment. Anyway back to this movie. It grabbed me in the sense that Reeve was living his own life as a playwright, and he had pretty much no relationships, or any one to account for, but himself, and it was as simple as a woman brushing past him saying something about "Don't Forget Me" to turn his life upside down. It wasn't a command, or a plea. It was said in whispered tones to where only he could hear her. It gave me the impression of what Christ does to our hearts. Like that woman knocking on the door of Reeve's heart beckoning him to seek Jane Seymour back in 1912 Christ stands at the door of our heart, and knocks hoping we'll let him in. I haven't seen this now for almost 24 years, and would like to know what happens when he meets her in 1912. Do they fall in love? does he stay in 1912, or goes back to 1980? If he goes back to 1980 does she accompany him? Alot of unanswered questions that I would like to have answered. Hopefully I'll see this again real soon. |
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