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Somewhere in Time
Young 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.
1980 · Directed by Jeannot Szwarc · 103 min · Drama · Fantasy · Romance · 14 frames
Tagline
Someday in the past he will find her...
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Matheson
- Cinematography: Isidore Mankofsky
- Edited by: Jeff Gourson
- Music: John Barry
- Production design: Seymour Klate
- Produced by: Stephen Deutsch
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
- Susan French as Older Elise
- John Alvin as Arthur's Father
- Eddra Gale as Genevieve
- Audrey Bennett as Richard's Date [1972]
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions, Stephen Deutsch Productions
- Budget: $5,100,000
- Themes: hotel, time travel, playwright, photograph, portrait, pocket watch, 1980s, 1910s, stage actress, single man
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