Time After Time | | Cast : | Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen | | Director : | Nicholas Meyer | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | August 31, 1979 | | DVD Released Date : | August 06, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | A Wonderful Movie! | Content
 | I happened to see this movie as a sneak preview before it was officially released. Went to see it not expecting much but after that first viewing it became one of my favorite movies. I've seen it many times over the years and still love watching this charming story that completely captivates you.
With the wonderful performances and story, I can't find anything to fault. Right up there in the Top 20 movies of all time! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | Wonderful sci fi, Nix the gore | Content
| Accomplished sci fi mind at work here: Author offers two theories to think about in one great story. First theory proposed is what might have been the inspiration for Wells' Time Machine novel and its character (acted by Rod Taylor in the original Time Machine movie). Second theory: Why was Jack the Ripper never caught?
One could appreciate the humor and love story in this movie much, much more (because both really are wonderful) if it wasn't so off balance when put against the gruesome crimes against women depicted. Opening crime scene: Gruesome visual and audio effects--this was plenty to establish the heinousness of the previous and subsequent crimes of Jack the Ripper. Yet, they had to show them all!
Five stars without the graphic violence! Three stars for the story, with repeated showings of gruesome violence to women. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 17, 2005 | | Summary | This Movie Is A Gem!!! (And Ms. Steenbergen is HOT too!!!) | Content
| I saw this movie back in 1979 when I was 19 and it left an impression on me. Malcolm McDowell gives a fine performance as the writer H.G. Wells in a role that could not be further removed from 'A Clockwork Orange". He is strongly supported by the gorgeous Mary Steenbergen who I fell in love with during the movie and David Warner who plays Jack The Ripper gives a fine menacing performance too. This was the original "fish out of water" movie that became so prevalent in recent years.This movie has aged well since 1979 and I regurlarly hire it from my Video Store to recapture my wild, recklesss youth.Ah Nostalgia. How sweet it is!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 16, 2005 | | Summary | Please spare me . . . | Content
| from such schmaltz; such drivel.
It's movies like this one that remind me why science fiction is so vastly over-rated.
Worse still, why didn't anyone remember to tell the unsuspecting viewer about the trumped up "humor". |
| Rating | | | Date | January 14, 2005 | | Summary | An Engaging Romance, With Jack The Ripper Near By | Content
| It's not often you find a well-done romance featuring Jack the Ripper. A young Herbert George Wells in 1893 London invites a few close friends to his home for a meal and a look at his latest invention. It's a time machine, and he intends to use to it visit the future, which because of science and man's intelligence he is sure will be a utopia. The police interrupt his evening gathering because Jack the Ripper has struck again and they know he is in the neighborhood. But when his guests leave, one is unaccounted for, and the time machine is missing. It returns empty, having gone to November 5, 1979, where Herbert's friend, Dr. John Leslie Stevenson now known to be Jack, got off. Herbert gathers what money he has, packs a travellling bag, and sets off in pursuit. He cannot let the madman who was his friend infect utopia.
Wells winds up in San Francisco. He meets Amy Robbins (Mary Steenburgen), a bank teller who helps him with some of his strange money, rather likes his curiously old-fashioned suit, and then helps him just get around. The future turns out to be a difficult and confusing place. He and Mary develop feelings for each other and he tracks down Jack, who is in his element. As Jack tells him, "Ninety years ago I was a freak. Now I'm an amateur." The resolution of the plot is final for Jack, but is just a beginning for Herbert and Mary. But Wells is determined to return to his time, just as Mary is reluctant to leave her time. His disallusionment with the future is understandable. In a museum he finds an exhibit about himself with copies of his books he hasn't written yet. "I have to go back," he tells Mary. "I have to destroy this machine. I have all those books to write, whatever they are. Fiction, I hope."
This is a charming movie which is hard to catagorize. Some will call it science fiction. I think it's basically a romantic suspense film, which has a lot of humor built in. The future turns out not to be utopia, and Wells' attempt to deal with things is touching and ironic.
Malcom McDowell, an actor I have a lot of respect for, turns in a first-class performance as the shy, earnest and brave Wells. Mary Steenburgen just about matches him as Amy, a woman who also is shy but who values independence and is not about to simply settle for the title "spouse."
This movie works on a lot of levels. You might not fall in love with it, but you'd have to be both hard-hearted and humorless not to at least like it.
I thought the DVD transfer is just fine. |
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