Time After Time

Name: Time After Time
Released: 1979-9-28
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams

Time After Time

PG
1h 52m
1979

87%

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Famed scholar, author, inventor and prophet H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper, one of the most feared serial murderers of all time, from 19th-century London to modern-day San Francisco in this science fiction thriller. When Jack the Ripper (David Warner) flees across time in one of H.G. Wells' (Malcolm McDowell) inventions, Wells follows him to the 20th Century. Now, in a city and a time completely unknown to him, Wells must find a way to stop the Ripper from continuing his streak of murders.

Director:

Nicholas Meyer

Producer:

Herb Jaffe

Writer:

Nicholas Meyer

Cast:

Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams, Andonia Katsaros, Patti D'Arbanville

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Critics Consensus: With the three principal actors clearly having fun with their roles, Time After Time becomes an amusing, light-hearted fantasy lark.

Reviews

Film Joy

Amanda Mazzillo

Time After Time is a delightful film offering an alternative version of a real persons life utilizing the staples of their fiction. The performances ... make this light-hearted romantic fantasy thriller one you will not soon forget.

...a briskly-paced thriller that benefits substantially from its strong performances and proliferation of irresistible time-travel elements...

Such a scrambling of fact, fiction and imagination in itself deserves back-patting and, for the most part, the rendering is as delightful as the basic idea.

Time After Time is still a fun fish-out-of-water flick that deserves more attention than it has received in the thirty years following its release. But there's still plenty of time for that.

A delightful, entertaining trifle of a film that shows both the possibilities and limitations of taking liberties with literature and history.

June 21, 2017

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