Somewhere in Time

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Director Jeannot Szwarc created an elegant wormhole through time with this rarely seen gem based on Richard Matheson's novel.

Shot entirely on location at the Grand Hotel in Utah, Szwarc taps into the nostalgia of a bygone era to sublime effect.

Christopher Reeve superbly channels the determination of a man who pursues love decades ago against all logic.

Jane Seymour is magnificent as the elusive object of his affection, radiating both a vivacious spirit of another era and a deep melancholy. Her scenes crackle with unspoken longing across the void.

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Szwarc delicately handles questions of fate, nostalgia and love by overcoming temporary obstacles.

He never exploits his sci-fi conception for thrills, but maintains intimacy.

A true work of art, rediscovered on streaming as the perfect transportable romance.

Reeve and Seymour are superb, collaborating with director Szwarc to create a dreamlike experience destined to find new generations.

Jane Seymour earned a Golden Globe nomination for her luminous lead performance, but the film didn't get any other nominations.

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At the box office, Universal Pictures did not do well: it grossed only $17 million worldwide on a budget of $6 million.

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This is a movie that mixes romance with the fantasy of time travel through a simple technique recommended by a scientist who claims to have practiced it. It is an adaptation of the science fiction book Bid Time Return written by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay.

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The plot revolves around the playwright Richard Collier played by Christopher Reeve, known for playing the lead role in the first two Superman films, who is intrigued to meet a famous actress who lived at the beginning of the century whose name was Elise McKenna, played by Jane Seymour, double winner at the time of the Golden Globe awards in 1982 as best actress in a TV movie for East of Eden and in 1996 as best dramatic actress in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

The direction was in charge of Jeannot Szwarc who came from doing it with Jaws II and the music was in charge of John Barry, highlighting the fact that the main piece is Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, by Sergei Rachmaninov, interpreted by Roger Williams.

The scenes are good and the film meets the quality standards for a work that presents on the one hand a controversial subject and on the other hand the crazy things that are capable of being done for the sake of love.

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Christopher Plummer's performance as Mr. Robinson, Elise's possessive agent, is also noteworthy, as well as the period costumes, which were worthy of an Oscar nomination in that category and won the Saturn Award, as well as the award for best music and best fantasy film.

The film's budget was 5.1 million dollars and the box office gross was just over 9 million 700 thousand dollars, the critics were mixed, considering some mediocre and others very good, but with the passage of time has become a cult classic.

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Personally I enjoyed it with my family and I found it interesting for the unusual theme and the good staging with the natural of the time, another thing that I found interesting were the sudden twists of the play that pleasantly surprised.

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