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Release Date:
3 October 1980 (USA)
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Some day in the past, he will find her. more
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A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel. full summary | full synopsis
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Love
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Hotel
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Playwright
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Hypnosis
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Pocket Watch
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 6 wins
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3 nominations
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(5 articles)
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The film affirms that love is an undeniable force which goes beyond us...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Christopher Reeve | ... | Richard Collier |
 | Jane Seymour | ... | Elise McKenna |
 | Christopher Plummer | ... | William Fawcett Robinson |
 | Teresa Wright | ... | Laura Roberts |
 | Bill Erwin | ... | Arthur Biehl |
 | George Voskovec | ... | Dr. Gerald Finney |
| Susan French | ... | Older Elise |
| John Alvin | ... | Arthur's Father |
| Eddra Gale | ... | Genevieve |
| Audrey Bennett | ... | Richard's Date |
 | William H. Macy | ... | Critic (as W.H. Macy) |
| Laurence Coven | ... | Critic |
| Susan Bugg | ... | Penelope |
| Christy Michaels | ... | Beverly |
| Ali Marie Matheson | ... | Student (as Ali Matheson) |
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103 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Brazil:Livre |
Sweden:11 |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
USA:PG (certificate #25953) |
Australia:G |
Singapore:PG |
UK:PG |
France:U
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George Wendt's film debut.
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Continuity: The hotel register that Richard finds in the attic in 1980 is different than the register he signs at the hotel in 1912. Notice the signatures and placement of "Chicago" - completely different.
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Featured in Back to 'Somewhere in Time' (2000) (V)
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Somewhere In Time
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Christopher Reeve takes on the role of (Richard Collier) a successful Chicago playwright who is approached (in May 1972) by a very old woman (Susan French) who will alter the course of his life eternally...
The thoughtful old lady presses a classic pocket watch, from a past existence, into his right hand and intensely whispers four haunting words 'Come back to me,' which will affect him forever...
Eight years have passed and Richard is seeing his work incredibly sterile, gently afflicted with a case of lesser inspiration... So he packs his luggage and heads out to an island of enchanting beauty, to the Grand Hotel on the Straits of Mackinac waterfront...
While waiting for the huge dining hall to open, he tours the grand old building's museum, and sees a portrait of a lovely woman... He becomes obsessed about finding the truth behind the old photograph and begins questioning the people that knew her past... What emerges is a wonderful woman who is the first American stage actress in 1912 to create a mystique in the public's eye... She is the same lady who visited him that night at the premier of one of his plays...
Richard finds himself intrigued... There is so much to hear... People who knew Elise McKenna when she was young said that she was quick and bright and full of fun... Strong, willful, not at all the way she was later...
Seeking help from an old philosophy teacher who had written a book about 'Travels through time,' Richard attempts to disassociate himself entirely from the present, move everything out of sight that could possibly remind him of it, hypnotize his mind, and transport himself backward into the past, into June 27, 1912, into the life of the stunningly beautiful and talented Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour).
Nominated for Best Costume Design, the motion picture is a romantic fantasy that avoids any use of machinery in action... The time travel theory is completely non-scientific... The film captures the idea of a fine young man moving back among other time periods, and affirms that love is an undeniable force which goes beyond us, a force with no limit to the spiritual power, with no end to the potential of spiritual expansion...