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Time After Time

1979

Nicholas Meyer

Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi ...

6.4

3,120

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Thriller. Adventure Victorian Brits writer H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper travel through time into late 70s San Francisco. While the author marvels at this Utopian Eden, the psycho killer discovers his spiritual home -- and goes out searching for his next victim.

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A movie that's as sweet as it is clever, and never so clever that it forgets to be entertaining"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"A delightful, entertaining trifle of a film that shows both the possibilities and limitations of taking liberties with literature and history."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"After nearly two hours the tension has evaporated, and all that's left is a curdle of jokes and brutality."	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"It lacks a certain grace in execution, but this SF/romantic comedy-thriller, directed by Nicholas Meyer from his own novel, is clever and well calculated."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"There are a lot of nice touches in Time After Time, but the overall plot is too obviously scripted."	NEU
United States	Robert Osborne The Hollywood Reporter	"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."	POS

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