Somewhere in Time (1980)

Purely Joyful Movie!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I never heard of this movie until early 2018. I only watched it because Christopher Reeve was a great actor and I loved him as Superman. I've never seen Chris act without a red cape before, so I thought it was my responsibility to give him a chance to win me over again without his super powers. Boy, did he win me over with his performance in this movie.At first I thought Chris was playing Clark Kent again, but as the movie progressed I saw that Chris's character was more complex. He has a goal, a desire, a need. And through this performance you can feel every emotion he feels emotionally and physically. You feel the suspense that is creeping in and out of this unique time travel movie.This movie is an example of why I love Film. It's a Time Travel Movie, with a unique idea (different from another Time Travel film like Back to the Future or Bill and Ted), powerful performances (by Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour), and a powerful score (by the great John Barry), and it delivers something fresh that'd I'd love to revisit and analyze even more. From what I understand the writer of this film wrote for The Twilight Zone and I Am Legend, and it really shows. This film is almost like a longer episode of The Twilight Zone but without the great Rod Serling making a cameo. I can't recommend this movie enough for fans of great films. It has some flaws with the "science" or "theories" of Time Travel, but everything else overshadows the few flaws. It's a film that is too beautiful for words. Check it out.

"Somewhere in Time" is an excellent film that combines Time Travel with romance, using an interesting and unique idea involving hypnotizing your mind to believe you are actually in that moment in history. If you can avoid analyzing the rationality of time travel and suspend your disbelief, this film will be very enjoyable for you. The idea of traveling back through time to find your soulmate is something both men and women can believe in. It is to the credit of the performances of the leads, Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, that the viewer believes that such a thing is possible. Reeve and Seymour also look well together and have obvious chemistry, making their love affair entirely believable. Especially with their first kiss, there is a deep and passionate love that seems entirely real. The third element is the acting of Christopher Plummer, who is always excellent and quite effective here as the overprotective manager of Seymour's character. But, there are two more elements that contributes greatly to the atmosphere of the film - the moving music composed by John Barry, and the Grand Hotel where most of the movie is set. The handsome and expressive Reeve, the calm beauty of Seymour, the brooding and calculating Plummer, the romantic and moving music and the timeless presence of the Grand Hotel combine into a magical film for the hopeless romantic.The movie is slow paced, but has some very touching moments. I love the scene of their first meeting when Elise says, "Is it you?" It contains a minimal amount of swearing (religious in nature) and also the ending love scene, although tastefully done, may cause it to be inappropriate for children under 12. I personally prefer the Hallmark movie, The Love Letter, which has a similar theme but is more appropriate for all ages. It is not surprising that this movie has become a cult classic, with fans meeting every October at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, where the story takes place and was filmed. It was also filmed in Chicago. However, the towering success of this film is in its managing to bring light to the this elevated plane of a grand romance, so rare that most of us never even see it for ourselves in a lifetime, much less experience it. We all yearn for it. It is the aerial dream of souls that have evolved to subtle levels of discernment.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.

This is the movie that inspires me. Somewhere In Time fascinated me since I was a kid. The soundtrack, as the story in fact, have something that sounds like an eternal reminder, as something given, a thing without beginning and without end. Later I learned that it was Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody based on a Paganini Caprice. A film like a dream... A film that you can never forget... A film that you will carry with you ... as long you live, so... like a jewel. The most beautiful love story ever, suspended between two parallel worlds... You can not be a fan of romantic movies, if you have not watched it... You will remain with this movie in your heart, forever.

I didn't know this had hypnosis as the basis for time travel in its premise - that's just silly, there's no way around it. Other than that, this is mainly just cheap romantic novel stuff with terribly unfunny humour most of the time. Though, and I'm not entirely sure, the film does seem the have done some of the ground work for 'Groundhog's day', 'Back to the future' and 'Donnie Darko'. That would be a big plus.The film is beautifully shot, has equally fine settings and costumes, and there's lots of corny but authentic looking details (try spotting 'ye olde pickle barrel'!). Why Christopher Reeve kept reminding me of Ted Bundy, I'm not sure; wasn't he superficially charming and relentless in pursuit all the time? But, who wouldn't want to see more of (Jane) Seymour? Christopher Plummer wasted time and talent for some inane part also.In some perverted way, this was fun to watch, but it's not a good film. At all. 3 out of 10.