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Somewhere In Time [1980] | ![Somewhere In Time [1980]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQFK914FL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: Video
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Rating:  30 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 440044878324
EAN: 0044004487832
ASIN: B00004R6BM
Theatrical Release Date: May 6, 1981
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's silly, it's superficial, it's so desperately earnest about its tale of time-spanning love that you almost wish for a cheap flatulence gag just to break the solemn mood. But there is something so unabashedly gushy and entertaining about Somewhere in Time that you can't begrudge its enduring popularity. The film has become a staple of romantic-movie lovers since its release in 1980, and endless showings on cable TV have turned it into a dubious classic of sorts--a three-hanky weepy that anyone can enjoy as a guilty pleasure or a beloved favourite, with no apologies necessary. In his first film after the star-making success of Superman, Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress (Jane Seymour) who had performed there in 1912. He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her, and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her. "Is it ... you?" she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright, and it's clearly a mutual attraction. But even the slightest reminder of the playwright's modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past, so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away. Based on Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return, this flaky film may strain one's tolerance for plot holes and corny romance, but it's hard to deny its lasting appeal--and let's face it, guys, it'll make wives and girlfriends swoon if they are in a tearjerker mood. --Jeff Shannon
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 Somewhere inTime ....... May 11, 2006
Viewer 17 (Lancs, England)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
A beautiful film with wonderful music and restrained but charismatic acting by the late, great Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Chistopher Plummer. It was filmed on Mackinac Island in Lake Michigan in summer 1979 where the atmospheric Grand Hotel really exists and cars have always been outlawed so that to this day transport is by horse and carriage or bicycle only.
The story is a love story that spans time - 1912 to 1972 and 1980 that takes little imagination to be credible. Elise McKenna is a figure wrapped in mystery who becomes more and more real as the story unfolds. There is a powerful magnetic attraction between Richard Collier and her that defies the limitations of space and time. Throughout the film there is the hauntingly beautiful music specially composed by John Barry that provides a golden thread to underly and link the present/past continuum and the events as they gradually unfold.
There is an amazing scene beside the lake where Elise gets to know Richard and starts to fall in love that is a series of animated canvases by impressionist painters with the couple and music at the centre.
From the first to the very end, this film involves the audience in an emotional, magical ride that is dramatic, light, amusing and pure watching and listening pleasure. You will want to come back to this film again and again as you fall under the subtle spell it casts and bestows a gift that will remain with you always.
Please listen and watch...... January 7, 2006
D. Higson (Lancs)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I don't know what to put, other then to say that this film has the most haunting music ever made..... I watched this film for the first time when I was young and thought it was amazing, only realising later in life just how beautiful the score was. There has never been a film made since (in my opnion anyway) with music like this.... ever. Please listen and watch.
 More real for me now. November 15, 2006
Robin Johnston (London)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've loved this film for 20 years. The chemistry between Reeve and Seymour is clear from the first time they meet.
Initially unsuccessful at the box office, it was only when the video came out that it became popular. How gratifying that people have been drawn to it through recommendation rather than hype and also astonishing to think that Reeve and the Director did this off the back of 2 films of a very different genre - Superman and Jaws 2 respectively.
I've not read the novel, but for some reason the screenplay reminds me of Jane Austen, so if you don't mind that kind of thing, get the DVD and settle back with your loved one, a good bottle of wine and a box of tissues.
One of the All Time Great Romances July 21, 2004
E. A. Redfearn (Middlesbrough)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
A Commercial failure upon its initial release, it has been often shown on Television and has acquired admirers everywhere. Overall its a wonderful love story about a young writer (Christopher Reeve)who upon staying at a lakeside hotel on Lake Michigan becomes entranced by a portrait of an actress who had stayed in the hotel during 1912. With thought transference, he travels back in time and meets the actress (wonderfully portrayed by Jayne Seymour) They fall in love, but then tragedy strikes. I wont say much more except to say that it is a wonderful movie which hasnt dated at all. The DVD is very good indeed, enhanced by a documentary about "The Making off . . . " contains interviews with some of the stars; and gives a reason for its failure upon its initial release in 1980. Picture and sound is very good. And the music score by John Barry is worth a buy on its own. If you love good old fashioned romances, then go for it, you wont be disappointed.
Somewhere On My Amazon Shopping List March 23, 2006
Mrs. L. Waite (Worcestershire, UK)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
An enchanting film, and one to share with the misses over a bottle of wine one Sunday evening. Have a copy of this on VHS recorded off the telly ages ago and now getting a bit "glichy".
Worth buying for the enhanced picture quality and extra's. Great story line and mega weepy, so keep the tissues handy... R..I..C..H..A..R..D.......
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