Somewhere in Time

by Sheilah
(Portland OR)

Christopher Reeve stars as a 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.

But, there are two more elements that contributes greatly to the atmosphere of the film - the moving music composed by John Barry, and the Grand Hotel where most of the movie is set.

The handsome and expressive Reeve, the calm beauty of Seymour, the brooding and calculating Plummer, the romantic and moving music and the timeless presence of the Grand Hotel combine into a magical film for the hopeless romantic.