Somewhere in Time (1980). Photofest.
Somewhere in Time (1980). Photofest.
(Jeannot Szwarc, US 1980, 103 min., DCP)
In 1972, college theater student Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) celebrates the debut of his new play. An elderly woman Richard does not know approaches him and places a pocket watch in his hand pleading, “Come back to me.” Eight years later, Richard is a successful playwright living in Chicago. While struggling with writer’s block, he decides to take a break and travels to a resort, the Grand Hotel. He becomes mesmerized by a photograph of actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour) and finds out she was the same woman who came to see his play eight years prior. When he decides to contact Elise’s former housekeeper, he finds a book on time travel among Elise’s effects. Richard tries to unravel the past by going back in time to 1912 to meet Elise, but little does he know that he is fated to fall in love with her.