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Somewhere in Time
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Somewhere in Time is a 1980 American film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and produced by Ray Stark. The screenplay was written by Richard Matheson, who also authored the source work. The cast includes Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, and Teresa Wright. The story involves time travel and is set in a hotel in Michigan and Chicago.
The film is a romance, science fiction, fantasy, and drama in English. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix, with additional providers including Amazon Prime Video. The runtime is 103 minutes, and the budget was 5,100,000. John Barry composed the music, Isidore Mankofsky served as director of photography, and Jeff Gourson was the film editor. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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7.5Young 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.
Cast
- Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier
- Jane Seymour as Elise McKenna
- Christopher Plummer as William Fawcett 'W.F.' Robinson
- Teresa Wright as Laura Roberts
- Bill Erwin as Arthur Biehl
- George Voskovec as Dr. Gerald Finney
Themes
- hotel
- time travel
- playwright
- photograph
- portrait
- pocket watch
- 1980s
- 1910s
- stage actress
- single man
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- time travel
- Director
- Jeannot Szwarc
- Screenwriter
- Richard Matheson
- Cast member
- Richard Matheson
- Composer
- John Barry
- Producer
- Ray Stark
- Cinematographer
- Isidore Mankofsky
- Narrative location
- Chicago
- Filming location
- Chicago
- Duration
- 99
- FilmAffinity ID
- 649633
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.somewhereintime.tv
- Image
- Grand Hotel 2008.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- publication date
- 1980-01-01
- title
- Somewhere in Time
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Costume Design
- film editor
- Jeff Gourson
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- after a work by
- Richard Matheson
- set in environment
- hotel
- review score
- 29/100
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