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Somewhere in Time

1980 1h 43m
Drama Fantasy Romance
MOVIEVIBE Rating
7.5/10
686 reviews
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Somewhere in Time

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.

"Someday in the past he will find her..."

Top Billed Cast

Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve
Richard Collier
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour
Elise McKenna
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer
William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright
Laura Roberts
Bill Erwin
Bill Erwin
Arthur Biehl
George Voskovec
George Voskovec
Dr. Gerald Finney
Susan French
Susan French
Older Elise
John Alvin
John Alvin
Arthur's Father

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F Filipe Manuel Neto Verified TMDB Critic
2023-10-22

**A forgotten film that deserves to be revisited, even with all its flaws.**

Personally, I liked this film. It's one of those films that fell into oblivion very quickly, which doesn't seem fair to me: the film is much better than many more expensive and publicized productions, even though it has serious problems, which I'll talk about. Perhaps very few, besides the producers and cast, really believed in it: it didn't receive much attention from studios and theaters, it was a huge success in Asia but was ridiculed in the USA, while Europe seems to have ignored it.

The film has a very good...