The Man of Steel melted for Jane Seymour in this classic 1980 love story.
The Big Picture In 1978, Richard Donner made audiences believe that a man could fly when he directed Christopher Reeve as Superman. The film was a precursor to the current big-screen superhero craze and made Reeve an overnight sensation -- an actor plucked from relative obscurity to become one of the most sought-after commodities in the throngs of Hollywood.
He launches an investigation, once again flexing the particular muscles of the playwright, which leads him to an old philosophy professor who extols the possibility of time travel through self-hypnosis. As he finds that his life and the woman's life are intrinsically linked, he endeavors to time-travel to 1912 to meet the mysterious actress, whom he has identified as Elise McKenna and confirmed that she was the old woman he’d met briefly eight years prior.
Being adapted by Matheson, himself, Somewhere in Time succeeds by stripping both the science and the fiction from its science-fiction backbone. Though it takes a full 35 minutes of the film’s runtime to cast our principal back in time, it means little to the story or the viewer how the feat was achieved. It’s a strange paradox: The amount of time spent on the time travel is immense, and the film comes from a master of genre fiction as well as a director of particular genre conceits .
Reeve is magnetic in the role, truly embodying a man smitten with his crush. The word carries much weight, as he is almost literally immobilized by the enormity of his infatuation with the star, ready to forego the life he abandoned in his future past just to be near her for as long as possible. His mouth is perpetually agape, a sieve for his steaming affections as he trails after her from scene to scene like a cartoon cat on the wafting scent of a cooling pie.
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