
It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only... (Full plot summary below)
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It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine. As Stevenson continues his murderous ways, he will stop at nothing to achieve his desires, which places Amy in danger.
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| VarietyVariety StaffA delightful, entertaining trifle of a film that shows both the possibilities and limitations of taking liberties with literature and history. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDragan AntulovEvery once in a while, there comes a time travel film with brains. |
| Needcoffee.comWidgett WallsPossibly my favorite time travel flick ever. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinA movie that's as sweet as it is clever, and never so clever that it forgets to be entertaining. |
| QuickflixSimon MiraudoTime 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. |
| The Associated PressBob ThomasFor those who expect a tightly-written mixture of the detective and science fiction genres, Time After Time is bound to be a disappointment. It's more of a lighthearted fantasy/romance with a few thriller elements thrown in. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIt 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. |
| The A.V. ClubNick SchagerIt may eventually champion love as the guiding light amidst so much homicidal darkness, but Meyer’s film—happy ending be damned—resonates most deeply when confronting the ugly, inescapable reality that man’s murderous past is likely also his future. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewAfter nearly two hours the tension has evaporated, and all that's left is a curdle of jokes and brutality. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere are a lot of nice touches in Time After Time, but the overall plot is too obviously scripted. |