Reference Film: XIX – SOMEWHERE IN TIME by Jeannot Szwarc

Somewhere in Time (1980)
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Writing credits by Richard Matheson (novel)
Runtime: 103 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Colour: Colour (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Cast:
Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier
Jane Seymour as Elise McKenna
Christopher Plummer as William Fawcett Robinson
Teresa Wright as Laura Roberts
Bill Erwin as Arthur Biehl
George Voskovec as Dr. Gerald Finney
Susan French as Older Elise
William H. Macy as Critic (as W.H. Macy)

Summary
The movie opens with college student Richard Collier gathering rave reviews for his new play. At the party, he comes face to face with an old woman who presses something in his hand and whispers, "Come back to me." He opens his hand to find an old pocket watch. Cut to several years later. Playwright Collier is in the midst of a break-up and writers block. He leaves the city for a while to think things out and finds himself near his alma mater at the Grand Hotel. While wandering around the hotel, he finds a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Richard is entranced, and tries to find out all he can about her. During the course of his research he learns she was Elise McKenna, an actress from the turn of the century. He also discovers that she was the mysterious old woman who gave him the watch. Finally determining that he must meet her somehow, he employees self-hypnosis and wills himself back to 1912.