Somewhere in Time Movie Review 1980

Playwright Reeve (in his first post-Clark Kent role) falls in love with a beautiful woman in an old portrait. Through self-hypnosis he goes back in time to 1912 to discover what their relationship might have been. The film made a star of the Grand Hotel, located on Mackinac Island in Michigan, where it was shot. Drippy rip-off of the brilliant novel "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. Reeve is horrible; Seymour is underused. All in all, rather wretched.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 103 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Time Travel, Island Fare, Behind the Scenes, Grand Hotel, Books to Film: Richard Matheson, You are Getting Sleepy!

Screenplay

Richard Matheson

Cast

Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright

Cinematography

Isidore Mankofsky

Director

Jeannot Szwarc

Music

John Barry

Producer

Stephen Deutsch