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Somewhere in Time (Collector's Edition)
Genre | Drama, Drama/Love & Romance |
Format | Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | Susan French, Jane Seymour, Jean-Pierre Dorleac, Jeannot Szwarc, John Alvin, Bill Erwin, Richard Matheson, Eddra Gale, Christopher Plummer, William H. Macy, George Voskovec, Stephen Deutsch, Teresa Wright, Christopher Reeve See more |
Initial release date | 2000-10-31 |
Language | English, French, French |
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Somewhere in Time (Collector's Edition)
Somewhere in Time is the story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman (Jane Seymour). Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there.
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- PG
- Romance
- Drama
- Fantasy
Product Description
Product Description
Somewhere in Time is the story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman (Jane Seymour). Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there.
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For devoted fans of Somewhere in Time, the exclusive documentary on this DVD will provide welcomed insight, background history, and poignant validation. The film was virtually saved from oblivion by a combination of cable TV exposure and grassroots fandom, and this engrossing documentary benefits from the participation of the film's principal cast and crew, all of whom remain as fond of this production as its legion of fans. Taped in 2000, the interviews are highlighted by the perspective of Christopher Reeve, whose fond recollections gain a certain profundity when combined with the physical impact of his paralyzing injury in 1995. But Reeve (who compares his near-death experience in the film with one he actually had after his injury) isn't the only one whose life had been touched by the magic of this film-that-wouldn't-die: from director Jeannot Szwarc to Jane Seymour and all others involved, Somewhere in Time was clearly a special experience, and their pride and pleasure are sweetly conveyed in this enjoyable hour-long tribute. Additionally, the DVD gives due credit to the fan club INSITE--the International Network of Somewhere in Time Enthusiasts--in a featurette exploring the club's history and membership. The INSITE's mailing and Web site addresses are also provided. --Jeff Shannon
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.5 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 61167130
- Director : Jeannot Szwarc
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 44 minutes
- Release date : October 31, 2000
- Actors : Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin
- Dubbed: : English, French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Producers : Stephen Deutsch
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00004W46I
- Writers : Richard Matheson
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,167 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #281 in Fantasy DVDs
- #726 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #3,121 in Drama DVDs
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The story (beware of plot spoilers) deals with Richard Collier, a young playwright in college who has just seen his first play successfully performed and is backstage, celebrating with the rest of the cast and crew. Everything is interrupted when an elderly, yet very elegant, woman moves through the crowd of people and silently approaches him. She takes his hand and places an antique pocket watch in it, and then says only four words: "Come back to me." The elderly lady returns home that night and dies. The movie then jumps ahead several years to when Collier is now a world-renown playwright, living in Chicago. He's just broken up with his girlfriend, plus he's having trouble completing his newest play. He decides at the spur of the moment to hop in his car and to take off for a few days, hoping this will help him to regroup. His journey leads him to the beautiful Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan, where he decides to stay for a day or two. While waiting for the hotel's restaurant to open on his first evening there, he takes a tour through the hotel's Walk of History and sees a photograph of the lovely, breath-taking stage actress, Elise McKenna (played by the lovely Jane Seymour) , who performed at the hotel in 1912. Collier finds himself mesmerized by the photograph. He can't stop thinking about the woman in it. It's almost as if he's fallen in love with her. Wanting to find out more about her, he makes a trip to the public library and discovers that Elise McKenna was the elderly lady who gave him the pocket watch. This leads him to investigate the hotel's old registers. Collier finds out that he stayed at the hotel in 1912. Though it seems impossible, he accepts the facts that are presented to him. The only question now is how to return to 1912 and to the woman he loves.
Somewhere In Time is definitely a tearjerker in the biggest sense. If you have a sensitive heart, you can't help but be moved by this film. It still brings tears to my eyes, and I've seen it over twenty times. The music to the movie is hauntingly beautiful and was done by none other than John Barry, who's more famous for his soundtracks to many of the "James Bond" films. This movie has so many fans that they actually get together every year at the Grand Hotel to relive the film and to have a big party where they all dress up in the style of clothing that was popular in 1912. The extras include a twenty minute "Making Of" documentary and a ten-minute look at the fans and their get together at the Grand Hotel each year. This is a wonderful, moving film that speaks to one's heart and soul, and is highly recommended to those who believe in love. Once you see it, you'll certainly want to buy the motion picture soundtrack so that you can relive the movie while you do other things around the house.
First, the basics. The script is great. The plotting is airtight. The cinematography is perfect. The acting is very good. The direction, and the timing of action, is stellar. It has what I'd call the best on-screen kiss. And the crowning feature of the film is something I don't dare mention.
What makes the film work, though, is that it doesn't spell it all out for you. At its end you'll be thinking lots of "hows" and "whys", and wanting to see it again to figure things out better.
Jane Seymour (as actress Elise McKenna) is luminous here. Christopher Reeve is winningly gawky and hunky at the same time. Their romantic tension is palpable, and it makes their high-speed love affair very convincing. Christopher Plummer has great substance as Elise McKenna's protective manager.
This film at once takes romance seriously, and uses time travel to create a mind-bending plot that will haunt you afterward.
The only weakness of this film is that it is a bit light on the characterization. We see that Richard (Reeve) and Elise (Seymour) love each other, and we must guess that it is ultimately because of their love for the theatre, but this is never made fully explicit. Still, this "weakness" is in the nature of this very plot-driven film. It's mainly a series of events that all fit together like a puzzle, rather than a study of human nature. That the romance is so believable is a tribute to the acting and the direction, rather than the script.
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Reviewed in Brazil on September 6, 2023
Reviewed in Mexico on October 30, 2020
me on a road trip for a few days and we stayed on Macinack Istand, dined at the Grand Hotel where this movie was made. What a wonderful time we had.........then we went to Manitoulin Island where my son has a cottage and we watched the
movie. Amazed that all the carpet etc. has been duplicated to be the same as the original.
I lost my copy of the movie and was so pleased to find it for sale with Amazon and was able to purchase it again.
Thank you for your time.