Product Details
- Starring: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin
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- Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Jeannot Szwarc
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- EAN: 9786300182370
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- Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
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- ISBN: 1558807063
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- Label: Universal Studios
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- Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Universal Studios
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- Release Date: 1992-03-01
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- Studio: Universal Studios
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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- Title: Somewhere in Time
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- UPC: 096896602435
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: It's silly, it's superficial, it's so desperately earnest about its tale of time-spanning love that you almost wish for a cheap flatulence gag just to break the solemn mood. But there's something so unabashedly gushy and entertaining about Somewhere in Time that you can't begrudge its enduring popularity. The film has become a staple of romantic-movie lovers since its release in 1980, and endless showings on cable TV have turned it into a dubious classic of sorts--a three-hanky weeper that anyone can enjoy as a guilty pleasure or a beloved favorite, with no apologies necessary. In his first film after the star-making success of Superman, Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress (Jane Seymour) who had performed there in 1912. He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her, and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her. "Is it ... you?" she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright, and it's clearly a mutual attraction. But even the slightest reminder of the playwright's modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past, so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away. Based on Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return, this flaky film may strain one's tolerance for plot holes and corny romance, but it's hard to deny its lasting appeal--and let's face it, guys, it'll make wives and girlfriends swoon if they're in a tearjerker mood. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Reviews
Movie credit for author Jack Finney?
I won't add to the laudatory comments about this movie but would like to raise an intriguing question in connection with the Steve Reeves/Jane Seymour movie, "Somewhere in Time." In 1970 Jack Finney copyrighted what he called "An Illustrated Novel" named "Time and Again," which I have. It is a romantic, soulful read predicated on time travel back to an earlier New York City. I have always been struck by the similarity between the time travel "method" used by Finney in his book, and the sort of self-hypnosis method used in the Somewhere in Time movie. They are uncannily similar! Yet I find no credit for Jack Finney in connection with the Somewhere in Time movie on either the comments posted on Amazon.com or anywhere on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com).
Of interest also is that the professor character in the movie who tells Richard Collier about time travel is named "Finney." Can that be just coincidence, or was it intended as a kind of homage to author Jack Finney? Does anyone know?
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Somewhere in Time
One of Chris Reeve's best films, overlooked by the critics, but an outstanding performance. Chris draws you in to his obsession with the picture and the woman. You find yourself cheering when he is able to travel back in time, and weeping when he is swept back to his own time unable to return. A box of tissues needed for this film.
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Somewhere in Time
Somewhere in Time is a wonderful movie that keeps my attention. At the end, I wish there was a sequel.
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Timesless Classic
Movie is still as outstanding today as it was when I first saw it 20 years ago. This is a pure timesless classic to be seen by anyone and everyone
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Somewhere In Time
This classic live story will be chreished by my family for a long time to come. We have 4 small children who all fell in love with the story and continue to ask to watch the movie again.
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